A little boy once said, “We have soiled our characters by sin.” Adam and Eve when they were put in the beautiful garden of Eden were told they might have the fruit of every tree in the garden in one, which God commanded should not be eaten; this was to test their obedience to God. But, sad to say, they were tempted by the Serpent.
Eve listened to the voice of the tempter and disobeyed God, then it was that God drove them from the garden and man became at a distance from Him. God, however, promised a deliverer (Gen. 3:1515And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. (Genesis 3:15)) and in due time Christ came, and now, dear young friends, you may draw nigh and come to God through Christ.
A little girl was lying in a Hospital very weak and ill, she said to her mother,
“I am not afraid to die, Jesus is very near to me.”
You see when we are near and Jesus and we love Him, how different we feel, how glad we are because Jesus makes us happy. When we keep away from Him, when we are at a distance from Him, we feel very unhappy. We want the Lord Jesus, dear young friends, in life and death.
ML 10/05/1946