Gramma and I hope you are reading your Sunday school paper every week and also are learning your memory verse. We love to hear you say your memory verse. Now, let me tell you about our bird feeders.
We have five of them around the house. It is so interesting to watch the birds come to feast on the seeds that we put out for them. There are many different kinds of birds that come, and they all come because they know there is food!
One morning we were watching them, when all of a sudden they just up and flew away! What’s wrong? What happened? Within seconds we saw the reason — a marsh hawk! We call it “The Hunter.” We have seen it many times, and we have also found a little pile of feathers after his visit. He is not fussy over which color bird he catches and eats. We have found red feathers, black feathers, gray feathers, brown feathers and other colors as well. Gramma and I sure don’t like this “hunter,” but what can we do?
Doesn’t this remind us of Satan, who goes about looking for any he can destroy? It sure does, children! But if you are alert and wise to his very crafty and sneaky ways, here is a way to be sure that he will never catch you. The only sure way to avoid him is to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour. Your Sunday school papers and memory verses all tell you about the only One who can save you.
Those little piles of feathers are from birds that were careless or too slow in taking off from the bird feeder! One bird will always give a warning when danger is near. Maybe, just maybe, some bird did not listen to the warning!
And, children, God has given you and me warnings in His Word, the holy Bible. “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2). “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31)).
Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world:
Red and yellow, black and white,
All are precious in His sight,
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
We love you too!
Love, Grampa & Gramma
ML-04/16/2000