EVEN among the poor brute beasts there is such a thing as luxury and poverty. Just look at that fat dog sitting on the top of the wheelbarrow! He has been well cared for, and everything eatable seems to be eaten up. The poor, hungry, half-starved dog is looking so wistfully at the empty plate in the basket, and would say, if it could, “I would like one bite to stay my hunger.”
Have you ever thought why it is that there is such a condition in this world? God’s Word is where we get the answer.
All this has come in through sin. It is not that the brute beasts have sinned, but man, who was made head, sinned, and the whole creation under him consequently suffered as the result.
What a terrible thing sin is! It always has its bad results, and the worst result is—those who have their sins upon them must be finally banished from God’s presence, because God could not allow sin in His presence; but there is good news for us all, and that is, God is love as well as He is holy, and in His wonderful love He gave His only begotten Son to take our place under the awful load of our sins, and He bore the dreadful penalty on the cross. That is why the Lord Jesus said, when hanging there, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”
Can you answer by saving, “It was on account of my sins being laid upon Him, and God being more holy than to behold iniquity, that God could not look upon Him”? If you can say this, you have the great remedy for the awful, eternal result of your sins; but for the results un this life, the Lord has not delivered us yet, but the day is coming when He will.
May you rejoice in that Savior as yours, who has delivered His own from eternal wrath, and will yet deliver the whole creation from its groan.
ML-08/08/1920