Dick was only three years old and he couldn’t run very fast, but he wasn’t wasting any time as he hurried up the garden walk with the big tears chasing each other down his rosy cheeks.
“Hello, Dick! Why those tears, and where are you going?”
“I’ve just eaten some strawberries from the garden and I’m going to tell mother. She told me not to touch them.”
That’s the end of the story, but I hope it may be a lesson for us all. Our every act of disobedience has been seen and recorded by God. And He has heard every wrong word too. Shall we run from Him or to Him? Come to Him now with all your sins, confessing your guilt, and you will find Him ready, willing, and able to forgive you. It is through the work the Lord Jesus did in bearing sin upon the cross that God can righteously pardon you.
ML 11/21/1954