Years ago a boy left his cabin home in the mountains and went to live in the big city. Years later he went back to see the old home where he had spent his childhood. As he walked along the stream, he remembered a bag of walnuts that he had planted when he was a boy.
Sure enough! There they were—twenty-five walnut trees.
I wonder what you are planting, dear young reader? Are you sowing good seed? In Matthew 13 the Lord Jesus told of how a sower went forth to sow and he sowed good seed. He said, “The seed is the Word of God.”
What will there be many years from now, perhaps in eternity, when you look back on what you have done here? Will there be fruit to God’s eternal praise? Will someone be in heaven because of your sowing?
Or will you reap the sad results from those sins of early years? Will someone be in a lost eternity because he or she followed you when you were going astray?
God grant that yours may not be this latter case, dear young reader. Come to the Saviour now; seek to live these golden years for Him. He will reward you and make you happy, and you will have much to thank and praise Him for in the coming years.
ML-06/07/1964