HAVE you ever seen deer in their native home? Perhaps, some of you have, others have not. They live among the woods, and shrubbery, but they are timid creatures, sleek, and ever on the alert. How pretty they are, with their heads thrown up, and the big gazelle-like eyes are wide open and luminous.
The dread of wild beasts, and of still more dangerous man, has brought them to a state of nervous tension, which in any moment may end into the swiftest flight.
How well, dear ones, they know their enemy! God has given them their instinct and He also has given them the swiftness to escape danger, and how ready they are to get away from that which will harm them.
Boys and girls should have greater intelligence than the deer of the field, for God has given them a never dying soul, and yet we see them running straight into all sorts of danger. The deer run away from it.
Boys and girls are so apt to listen to the voice of the enemy, and fall into his traps. Satan is the enemy of boys and girls, and he wishes to hold them in his clutches. The word is,
“Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” Listen, dear ones,
“There’s a Friend for little children, Above the bright blue sky.”
Now, you all know that a friend is one who loves you, and is just the opposite to an enemy. This Friend came down from heaven to suffer, bleed and die on the cross for all who have sinned. He went to the cross, and there laid down His life, because He loved you. There was no other way by which you could be saved, —there had to be a sacrificed life.
“Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” 1 Peter 3:1818For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (1 Peter 3:18). “CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES; HE WAS BURIED, AND HE ROSE AGAIN THE THIRD DAY, ACCORDING TO THE: SCRIPTURES.” 1 Cor. 15: 3, 4.
Now, He is sitting at God’s right hand in heaven, and from. there He is inviting you to come to Him, and know that your sins are washed away in His precious blood. Then you can lift up your hearts with the redeemed.
“Giving thanks unto the Father, ... .who hath delivered us front the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son; in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.” Col. 1: 12, 13, 14.
ML 07/06/1924