BARBARA and Elaine loved to cross the meadow to meet Day on his way home from work. It was harvest time and the grass was long and green. There were also flowers to gather as they went along.
One afternoon Elaine said to her father, “We saw something real pretty in the grass today,” and she took him over to a spot near the path. There they found a brightly colored snake. Daddy told the girls that it was poisonous and to keep well away from it.
How often sin and Satan appear like that “pretty thing,” yet how dangerous! Dear young friends, do not be charmed by the “pretty things” of this world. Many of them may seem harmless enough, but the bite of the serpent is there. A thing may seem harmless at first, “But at the last, it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.” Prov. 23:32. The world is full of such dangers, and only those who are saved and “in Christ,” are safe from them.
Saved through the blood of Jesus,
Saved from all guilt and shame,
Saved is the soul that trusts Him,
Trusts in His precious name.
Safe in the Rock of Ages
Fearlessly he may hide;
Safe from the storms of judgment,
Safe from the swelling tide.
ML-09/17/1972