The children in today’s picture are helping themselves to the good things in the basket. Hungry, and seeing food that looks so good, they cannot resist the temptation to take some. They ought to be taking it home to mother instead. She would then give them their share. But they are just like many other children, and older people too, who sometimes yield to temptation.
Adam and Eve, the first man and woman who ever lived in this big world, were tempted to eat the fruit God had told them not to eat. They disobeyed God, and had to be put out of the garden of Eden.
As Adam brought death into the world, so Christ has brought salvation and life eternal to all who believe in Him.
I trust that many of you young readers have accepted God’s wonderful gift, and know Jesus as your Saviour.
If you know Him and love Him, you will try to please Him. You will ask Him to keep you from temptation, and make you obedient children,—not doing the things that would displease your parents, as the children in the picture are doing.
ML 12/25/1938