THE rooster and hens have a pan of food and seem to be enjoying it, while the pups look on longingly, as much as to say, “We would like some too.”
The pups are quite young and are probably afraid to try to get part of the food in the pan, for chickens are not gentle creatures at all.
Do you, ever see other people enjoying something and wish you had some too? Naturally we often wish for things we cannot have.
Some people have more money than we. Some have better health. Others have a sweeter disposition or prettier faces. Some are more intellectual and some have special talent for music or some other art. Some have happier homes.
All these things we naturally covet. And the more we see others enjoying them, the more we want them ourselves.
But if we are Christians, this should not be so. The Lord loves us and gives us what is best, though we may not always think so.
If you had much money, you might not spend it for the Lord.
If you had a beautiful face, you might feel proud of it. The Lord does not want us to glory in such things, or feel above other people on account of them.
If you were a skillful musician or artist, you might be more interested in your music or drawing and painting than in your Bible.
Whenever the Lord withholds anything you would like to have, there is a good reason for it. Perhaps He has some lesson to teach you. He has a great many ways, and often strange ways, of teaching His children.
Then do not be unhappy on account of not having some things you would like so much to have. Thank God for the many good things you do have, and be content. You have the Lord Jesus, and He is more than all else.
ML 06/23/1912