WE see in our picture a mother’s care over her dear little girl. She has been dressed, and a nice lunch put up for her, and Rover has her bag of books in his mouth. The mother has even came out to the gate to watch her little girl start off for school.
Have you thought, dear children, of how wonderful God’s care is over us. He is watching us at every turn, and it is He who has given us all that we have.
Someone may say, “Then, why do we have unpleasant things happen to us?” Perhaps they may come to us as the result of not being dependent on the Lord; or from our disobedience.
Once I read about a little girl, by the name of Nellie, who stopped on the way to school to look into a river where she could see fish, and her books and lunch basket fell into the water. The little girl in our picture has the dog to carry the books for her, but little Nellie was all alone. She disobeyed her mother for she was told not to play on the way, so that sad trouble happened to her.
This is generally the reason things go wrong with us, but there are other reasons that God permits trouble to happen to us, and we may be sure disobedience must be punished. Do not forget God is always watching over us, and He is the One who is taking care of us, even more than our dear mothers can do, so we must seek to obey Him. He tells us,—
ML 04/07/1918