NEAR where I live there is a man that has some rabbits. He keeps them in a yard with a fence around it, so they cannot get away nor dogs get in and chase them. Once I went near the fence, and said, “Bunny, nice bunny!” and I thought the rabbits would come up to me. But they were so frightened, they ran away very fast to the other end of thy yard. Then I threw a few lettuce leaves over into the yard, and I thought when they saw them they would come back to me. Do you think they did?
No, they did not. But after I went off a little distance, they came to the place where the lettuce was and ate it so fast. If they had only known it, I would not have hurt them, but they did not, so they stayed away.
Now, as these rabbits were afraid of me, and would not take what I was wanting to give them, so, many people are afraid of God, and don’t know that He loves them, and is waiting to do them good, like I waited, when I said, “Bunny, nice bunny!” What good thing is it that God is holding out to all the people in this world, that they may have if they will only take it? It is salvation, and all that is needed to be done to have it, is for them to believe the Lord Jesus died on the cross to wash away all their badness and that He is now in heaven where they will go some day to be with Him and like Him forever.
Have you taken God’s gift of salvation?
I am going to tell you of another rabbit I saw a few days ago, I was riding on the street car at night, and I was sleepy because it was bedtime. We were going through the city, and there were many teams and other street cars going past us all the time, and a band went marching by, and then the bell on our car kept going “clang, clang.” All these things made so much noise I could not sleep, so I looked around in the car, and what do you think I saw? A boy was sitting right across from me with something black moving around inside his coat just below his tie. It was a cunning little rabbit! Wasn’t it strange to see a little baby rabbit in a car? He put Bunny down on the seat by him, but it ran right back to him and climbed into his coat just above where it was buttoned at the top, and went to sleep.
“It isn’t afraid to go anywhere with me,” the boy said, “as long as I carry it, it’ll go anyplace down town without being frightened.”
Pretty soon he got out of the car, and you ought to have seen how nicely Bunny woke up, looked around at all the strange lights, and then shut his eyes and went to sleep, happy because he was inside the boy’s coat.
How this reminds us of the care and protection the Lord Jesus gives to all those who put their trust in Him.
His lambs are the children who know that He died for their sins. Are you one of His lambs? If so, you need never be frightened, even to die, for Jesus will hold you, and He will never let you go.
Jesus, tender Shepherd, hear me,
Bless Thy little lamb tonight,
Through the darkness be Thou near me
Keep me safe till morning light.
ML 10/21/1900