The dear baby is so distressed over the loss of her milk, which naughty kittie has taken from her, but mother will soon hear her baby’s cries, and will come to find out what has happened, and baby will get all the milk she needs.
Disappointment will come to us all, whether we are young or old, but if we know the Lord Jesus Christ as our own Saviour, we know all our trials are allowed to come to us from our loving Father, who will send us nothing but what is best for us. If we will submit to His ways with us, we will be calm, and be able to say, “He knows best.”
The school a little girl attended was to have a picnic, and when the day arrived for it, her dear mother was ill, and while it was a great disappointment to her to stay at home, she felt she could not leave her dear mother with no one to care for her.
The day for the picnic started very beautiful, but in the afternoon a terrific thunder storm suddenly came up and the teacher and children had to run to an old frame building for the nearest shelter. All were terribly frightened, and one little girl was killed by the lightning, others were affected by it. Our little girl was thankful that she was safely at home with her mother.
Another little girl wanted very much to go to a picnic but the evening before it was raining and her mother had said that if it was still raining in the morning, she could not go. This little girl knew the Lord Jesus, and she knew too, that He could make it stop raining if He saw fit, so before going to bed she asked Him that it might not rain in the morning.
When morning came the rain was still pouring down, and someone said to her: “Well, the Lord did not answer your prayer.”
“O, yes, He did,” she replied at once, “He said, ‘No.’”
May we be able to say in all times of disappointment:
“The Lord is good, and doest good,” and submit to His will.
The greatest disappointment that can ever come, will be to those who think they are good enough to go to heaven, but have never accepted the Lord Jesus as their Saviour; and die unsaved; or are left behind when the Lord comes, to find there is nothing for them but eternal judgment, when the Lord will have to say to them,
ML 04/07/1946