THERE is a saying in the world that a wise man looks out for a rainy day, and surely, true wisdom belongs to the man or woman, boy or girl, who looks at the present in the light of the future. Many are living only for the present; and are shutting their eyes to the future.
Dear children, have you looked ahead and faced the solemn question as to where you are going to spend eternity? “A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.”
There is an old fable which serves to illustrate this truth. It tells of a grasshopper who hopped and chirped in the grass all through the summer as happy as he could be, never thinking that the summer would all too quickly come to an end.
A big bumblebee saw him, and said, “Look out, my friend, for the winter, or you’ll starve.”
Then a hardworking ant asked him to give a helping hand to roll a large piece of bread it had found.
“Not I,” said the grasshopper, “you do not catch me working like a slave with this beautiful sunshine all about us.”
“But there is winter coming on,” said the ant, “and what will you do when the snow is on the ground?”
“O, wait until it comes,” was his reply. “I never saw a winter, and I do not believe it is as hard as people say.”
At last it grew very cold, and the poor grasshopper began to feel the effects of it, and not knowing what to do he went to a beehive and begged them to take him in. They said their house was full, and had no room for loafers.
Then he went to the anthill and tried to get in, but he was told at the door that they had no food to spare for those who did not work, so the poor creature was left to die in the cold.
The moral is not hard to see you perhaps say, silly thing! but what of yourself, dear children? The bees toil all summer in view of the winter, and the ants labor to gather food to keep them during the cold weather.
So, the wise people, dear children, those who have true wisdom have put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and know Him as their deliverer from the judgments which are coming upon this poor world.
Are you one of this company? If not, no folly can be greater than, yours for every moment is hurrying you on to eternity, and then where will you spend it—in heaven or in hell, which?
O, dear children, do be wise, come now to the Lord Jesus Christ, while He is inviting you. He says, “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near.” Isa. 55:66Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: (Isaiah 55:6).
ML-11/14/1920