“Pretty Boy” was the name of a little blue Parakeet. His master kept him in his cage in his office, and he taught him to talk a little. When his master would say, “Pretty Boy, where are you?” the little bird would reply, “Here I am!”
One day a boy came into the office. Mr. Bailey had to step out for a few minutes and when he came back the door of the cage was open and the bird was gone.
“Where is the bird?” he asked. The boy answered, “I don’t know.”
“Well, he was in the cage when I went out,” said the man.
“The door of the cage was left open and he must have flown away,” suggested the boy.
Then Mr. Bailey began to call, “Pretty Boy, where are you?”
Immediately from the boy’s pocket came the little voice, “Here I am.”
The thief was convicted on the spot.
The Bible says, “Be sure your sin will find you out.” Numbers 32:23.
We may think we can hide our sins, and we may hide them from others, but we cannot hide them from God. “Be sure your sin will find you out.”
We are all sinners, “For there is no difference: for all have sinned.” Romans 3:22,23. And, dear unsaved reader, that sin of yours will one day come up before God and its voice will be heard in your condemnation, if you go on as you are without Christ.
The gospel tells us of God’s remedy for sin, of how those sins can be put away from His sight forever; for “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7.
“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” Proverbs 28:13.
ML 06/09/1968