THE little girl by the water’s edge has no difficulty in seeing how the wreath, which she has just made, looks on her head; for she sees it mirrored, or reflected, in the water. The smooth, still water gives no false representation but shows up exactly what is brought over its surface.
God’s word too, tells us,
That is, that your heart is just as bad as the poor vile criminal. You may not have allowed all the badness to be seen. You may have thought to tell what was not true, and then you said to yourself, No, I will tell the truth. Does that not show that there is evil in the heart? I am sure you will say, It does. Could all the efforts to keep from doing the bad things that the heart suggests, ever make the heart pure and fit for God’s most holy presence? No! We need to be cleansed from our sins and therefore the Lord Jesus came into this world and died in our stead. He died for sinners and we who may not have committed as many sins as others who can be called criminals, yet we need a Saviour just as much. How thankful then we should be that God has not only told us how bad we are, but that He has sent the Lord Jesus to be a Saviour for such. Have you accepted the Lord Jesus as your Saviour? If you have, may you be careful now to be much before the Lord, that you may be preserved from fulfilling the evil promptings of your heart and put these evil thoughts away from you immediately.
ML 09/07/1902