THE pheasants are beautiful birds, and have a natural shyness and wildness, apparently impossible to breed out. They make their homes in long grass, willows or alders, and when frightened they start up with a tremendous wher-r-r, and shoot off like the wind in search of new cover. They continually chase grasshoppers, flies and other insects for their food, and seem to enjoy it, as children do their play. But they, too, like all the rest of creation, have their pests and troubles. Hawks of various kinds come down upon them, and foxes, too, are bitter enemies. Then also a disease known as “gapes”, which sometimes gets among them, and causes a great many to die.
Why, one may ask, does God allow such a condition to be in His beautiful creation?
The answer is, sin has come ill, in connection with the head—Adam—and so the whole creation suffers.
But God will not always allow it to be so. He will make a new creation out of this ruined one, and every trace of sin will be done away. There shall be no more tears, nor death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor pain. Everything will be perfect then.
Would you, my dear reader, like to be in that new creation? If you would, God does not ask you to do anything in order to take part in it, but simply believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, as the Lamb of God. That One, who by His sacrifice, has atoned for sin—or covered sin by His blood—must be believed on; and if you do, you can say,
“My sins are covered, blotted out and will be remembered no more.”
Then you will rejoice in looking forward to the time when all things will be made new.
ML 10/17/1937