AS the time drew near for the children to be let out of school, the rain began to come down so fast that the roads were soon covered with water, so the mammas and older sisters went as fast as they could to the little country schoolhouse with umbrellas and extra coverings for the children.
What thoughtfulness and kindness with those mammas and sisters to go through the rain so as to shelter the others. Some had better shelter than others, because of the difference of the circumstances at home, but the mammas did the best they could.
What a lesson we may gather from this of the thoughtfulness and love of God. He looked down on men on this earth and saw what their state of ruin was, and the awful judgment that must follow, because He is holy and righteous; but as God is love as well, He sent down His Son, who was willing to come to die in our place, to be forsaken of God with all the load of our sins upon Him, so that we might be protected from that awful storm of judgment which we deserved for our sins. If love is seen in protecting the children from the rain, and going through it in ‘order to get them, how much greater is the love of God and His Son, when He braved the storm for us by entering into the distance that sin had put us from God. O, dear reader, have you responded to such love as that? Have you thanked Him and gladly confessed Him to others as your Lord and Saviour? If you have not, may you do so now, and be proud of Him, seeing He has loved you so much.
“Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father, which is in heaven.” Matt. 19:32, 33.
ML 06/04/1916