“Hurry,” said Patty, “let’s get some food and a blanket and walk to my Grandma’s house. Maybe we can get there for supper.”
“Let’s not tell our mothers, and then we will just surprise your Grandma when we get there,” continued Susan.
So the two little girls ran into the kitchen, found a paper bag and stuffed sugar cookies and two apples inside. Then they tiptoed into Patty’s bedroom, pulled out a blanket and sneaked out the front door and down the farm lane. Patty lived in the country, but her grana lived in town six miles away—so for two small girls this was quite an adventure.
The two girls were having a happy time, laughing and chatting as they walked along the dirt road.
“Maybe we should have told our mothers that we were walking to town,” suggested Patty.
“Oh, no,” answered Susan, “they would probably have told us that we couldn’t go. Besides, it’s more fun to go without anyone knowing, all on our own.”
And so they forgot about their worried mothers at home who had no idea where their two little girls were.
Are you like Patty and Susan who only wanted their own way? If we have accepted the Lord Jesus as our Saviour and Lord, God wants us to follow His will for our lives. “In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.” Proverbs 3:66In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (Proverbs 3:6).
Soon Patty and Susan became hot and tired, so they sat down in a sugar beet field to eat their cookies. The cookies didn’t last very long, so they had to get up and start walking again.
In the meantime, back at the house their mothers were getting quite worried. They discovered that their two girls were missing, and they began searching the house, yard and barns to find the girls. Soon, however, they realized that the girls must have wandered away from home. They called Susan and Patty’s names, but there was no answer.
Hopping into a car, the mothers began driving down the country roads searching for the girls. Soon they came across two very tired, lonely little girls sitting at the edge of a field.
Patty and Susan were so relieved and happy to see their mothers that they were quite willing to ride back home for supper. Although the girls thought they were enjoying themselves when they began their adventure, doing what they wanted to do, actually they were far happier to be safe at home with their mothers.
Patty and Susan were walking away from those who really loved them. They thought it would be fun, and it was, for awhile. But soon they found out that being away from those who loved them was no fun at all.
God loves you so much that He gave His only Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die for you. If you don’t know the Lord Jesus as your own Saviour, why not accept Him right now? He loves you and wants to save you and take care of you. But He can’t if you don’t trust in Him and believe that it is only His blood that can make you clean from all sin. Then as a Christian He will guide you every day in a path through this life that will be pleasing to Him, if you will let Him.
But even as Christians we can get away from the Lord Jesus and do things that do not please Him. Then God may have to bring unhappiness into our lives to make us see our wrong path. To know God’s way for us we should read His Word, the Bible, and ask Him each day to guide us. If we keep close to Him, He will show us the right path.
ML-11/01/1981