WEE Kitty was only five years old, but she wished to help mamma, and felt proud one day when mamma told her she wanted a message taken to a store nearby. Mamma wrote the message on paper, which was mamma’s word to the storekeeper.
When Kitty arrived at the store, she, (thinking she knew) began telling the storekeeper mamma’s message in her own words; but the storekeeper could not understand her. You see, Kitty was only repeating her own thoughts, not mamma’s words. Presently the storekeeper, seeing that Kitty had a piece of paper, asked for it, and then he found that the message was quite different from what Kitty had said.
Now, this is the mistake many of us make as to God’s Word, and it is very wrong.
We trust our own thoughts, and say what we think about the Lord Jesus Christ, while all the time we have the truth written down for us in the Bible, which is God’s Word.
God has caused it to be written so plainly that you, dear little reader, may understand that God loves you so much that He has given Jesus to be your Saviour.
If you think you do not need Jesus, read for yourself, or ask someone to read to you, God’s Word about it. Or if you think you are too good, or too naughty for Jesus, read what God says about you. Or even if you, like little Kitty, think you know the message (God’s message), still read what God has written; for God says, “My thoughts are not your thoughts . . . for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My thoughts higher than your thoughts.”
The Lord Jesus Himself answered Satan with the words, “It is written,” so we can only be safe by keeping close to God’s written word.
This then is the message, and Jesus brought it from God, and caused it to be written down for us in 1 John 1:55This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (1 John 1:5), “God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all.”
Do you believe this message, that nothing escapes God’s eye, and no one can bide from Him? It is written, “The eyes of the Lord are in every place;” so this message from God, and about God, is
A MESSAGE OF LIGHT.
It tells me that God, who dwells in the light, knows me through and through. It is not, I think God knows me. It is written, “GOD IS LIGHT.”
If I am naughty, I may be ashamed; or I may be afraid of the light; but this message from God also tells me that if I come to the light, there is love to meet me in the light; for “God is love” (1 John 4:1616And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16)); and God would have even little children know and believe the love that He has toward them. This then is
A MESSAGE OF LOVE.
for it is written, “God so loved the world.” It is not, I think, or hope, that God is love. He has shown His love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. God has shown His love to us in sending His Son Jesus into the world (1 John 4:99In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. (1 John 4:9)). If I believe God’s message, His perfect love casteth out all fear, for God is love.
God tells me what to say,
God hears me when I pray,
God sees me while I play,
God loves me all the day.
What a comforting message is written in 1 John 2:1212I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. (1 John 2:12). the youngest believer; “I write unto you, little children, because your sins ARE forgiven you for His name’s sake”—that is, for Jesus’ name’s sake. So this is
A MESSAGE OF FORGIVENESS.
It is not because you may have given up this sinful habit, or that naughty way; nor even because you may be very, very sorry for your faults. O, no! What is written is, FOR HIS NAME’S SAKE your sins are forgiven. All the sin that the LIGHT shows to us, His LOVE is ready to FORGIVE, for Jesus’ sake who died.
A MESSAGE OF LIFE.
It says there, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the Name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life.” God has had it written down for us. Do you believe the message?
ML 06/02/1918