HAVE YOU ever heard the expressions, “Busy as a Beaver,” “Eager Beaver"? This is said of someone who is active in doing things. The beaver is a picture of what a person should do and be bore God. The busy little beaver prepares for the future; he helps others, but he is always alert to danger and rests in time of storm.
Just apply the examples of the beaver to yourself, as you prepare for the future. Are you saved? in Proverbs 10:55He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame. (Proverbs 10:5) we read, “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son? This is the time to lay up treasure and that treasure is Christ. Are you prepared to meet God? Are you ready for a future in heaven, singing the praise of Him who loved you and died for you? Or will you have to say in the coming day, “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and [I am] not saved.” Jeremiah 8:2020The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. (Jeremiah 8:20)—alone and condemned, without Christ, a future of misery and sorrow. Dear young friend, prepare for a future with God’s Son; “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found.”
Then, if you are saved, you can be helping others like the beaver does. Do others know you are a Christian? In this dark world we are called to shine forth as lights in the darkness; and we will shine if we let Christ rule in our hearts.
If there is sudden danger, one slap of the beaver’s tail in the water, and the other beavers for half a mile around dive for safety. They don’t fool with danger. The Christian has a great enemy—Satan. We should never play with sin or temptation. We should keep close to the Lord Jesus and with those who are saved and desire to please Him.
When the winter is cold, the bear is comfortable inside his house under his dam. When judgment comes upon this world, the Christian will be at rest in heaven with Him “Who washed us from our sins in His own blood.” We will spend eternity with Him whom we learn to love and serve down here on earth. Earth and its cares will be left behind forever.
ML-07/27/1969