WHAT do you think these children are up to? One seems to be wanting to go and torment the big boy that has gone fast asleep leaning against the tree, and the other wants them to go and hide down in the cave, so that when he wakes up he will wonder where they have disappeared to. Just like children, up to some mischief and fun, though generally very harmless; but as they grow older their mischief often turns to harmful pleasure. That is, it is harmful to the one the joke is played upon, and strange to say that it should give pleasure to the one who plays the joke. Such is. human nature and it shows itself in early age. It is not in the human race to love our neighbors as ourselves, nevertheless, that is the word God gave to His people Israel.
The law was not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and disobedient, etc.
The law is a rule of right and wrong, and is a sword for the conscience. Christian ground is higher, and is with grace, and therefore calls on us to show to others the grace which the Lord Jesus has shown to us. He has said, “Thy sins be forgiven thee.” Then He wants us to forgive one another when we have suffered a wrong. Do you know what it is to have your sins forgiven?
Messages of God’s Love 6/26/1921