DURING World War 2 The United States government sent many hundreds of military cars, trucks and tanks to Egypt to help the Allies in the North African campaign. These cars and trucks were shipped in large wooden crates.
It was during those momentous days that a ship loaded with military equipment and supplies left the eastern shores of the U. S. and after a long, hazardous voyage across the Atlantic and through the Mediterranean finally arrived at Cairo. Powerful cranes soon were unloading the great wooden containers onto the docks, and men began to open up the cases with crowbars and hammers, and to drive the cars and trucks away.
As the men were opening one big case they were dumbfounded to see a mother cat and three little kittens crawl slowly from underneath the truck. The kittens were apparently all right, but the poor mother was just skin and bones. We believe the men were not long in getting her some milk and food in an attempt to save her life.
She must have crawled into the truck and gone to sleep before the lid was nailed down. Before she awoke to her danger, the men, not knowing she was inside, nailed up the crate and soon she was on her way to Egypt. Many days passed during which the little kittens were born, and the brave little mother nursed and cared for her little family all the way, though she had nothing for herself.
Reduced to almost a skeleton the faithful mother all but gave her life for her little ones. Then one day the light of day burst into the opened crate, and she was saved.
What stories of love creation tells!
But the Lord Jesus gave His life for us. He died that we might live. “For when we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” He died for us, the ungodly ones.
He loved the ones for whom He died,
Not ours to question why;
But ours to know the love of Him
Who came to die.
He must die to pay sin’s wages, “for the wages of sin is death,” and now God gives the gift of eternal life to all who believe on Him.
But Jesus rose from the dead, and lives forever in heaven now, and He is caring for all His loved ones who are still “prisoners of hope” in this world. One day soon for them life’s voyage will be over. He is coming to take them home to Himself, they shall hunger and thirst no more, but shall rest in His presence forever.
ML-12/12/1971