A MAN who was interested in public buildings visited many places, and even went into prisons to see what they were like.
In one prison he was taken into a cell which surprised him with its decorated walls. A man had occupied this cell for a long time, and had spent his time painting patterns and pictures all over the walls and the ceiling.
His daily task was to work at so much. yarn, and finding the yarn was of different colors, he soaked out the colors with water. Thus he got his red, blue and yellow with which he did his painting.
But although the painting made the place beautiful, yet after all it was only the cell of a prison. It seemed as if that prisoner wanted to forget where he was, and why he was found there.
There are many in the world like him, many who are trying to make things appear different from what they really are. They place wreathes of flowers on the graves in the cemetery to make it a beautiful place; but each grave tells us that death has been there, and flowers cannot alter that.
Although we live in a wonderful age when many inventions make life in the world more easy and comfortable, all this cannot alter the fact that we live in a sinful world that is going on to judgment; for God will judge the world in righteousness.
Through disobedience man brought death and judgment upon the entire human race, and ruin upon the whole creation. Christ died to redeem the world, and each one who takes Him as his or her Saviour is freed from judgment, and made fit to dwell with the Lord Jesus Christ where there is no death or anything displeasing.
Let us remember that in Noah’s day people ate and drank, they builded and were given in marriage, till one day the flood came and swept them all away, because they did not care to please God and walk in His ways; so also will it be when the Son of man comes again to judge all those who have despised His offer of mercy, and rejected Him as their Saviour. “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near.” Isa. 55:66Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: (Isaiah 55:6).
ML 11/19/1933