Poor doggie and kittie want a share in their little master’s lunch, and just watch how they beg, in their own way, and it seems as if he would not pay any attention to them! They evidently mean it too, they are not acting as if they were doing it for fun, still he keeps it all to himself. What would you call a little boy like that? Would you not call him selfish? I am sure you would. But very likely he is kind at times. How unlike this is to the way God has done with man. If we look back to the book of Genesis, we learn that Satan said to Eve, “Ye shall be as gods.” Ah, he was putting into her mind that God had kept something good from Adam and herself and so they were deprived of getting as much as He could have given them and they believed Satan, which produced the desire to be something more than God had made them. But they soon found that Satan had lied to them, and they had disobeyed God and were afraid to meet Him.
Satan would still try to make people think God was not good to them, and that He is holding something back from them; but it is not so, for God has answered Satan’s lie by giving His own Son (whoever was the dearest object of His heart) to die for man and thus bear the awful results of sin. So instead of letting man bear the result himself for his disobedience, He gave His Son to be a sacrifice on Calvary and charged Him there with sin and turned His face away from Him and left Him alone, just where Adam and Eve felt happier to be than in God’s holy presence, after they knew they had sinned. And that is not all that God has done for man; for, all who believe in Jesus not only escape the punishment they deserved for their sin, but, He gives them to share with the Lord Jesus where He now is at God’s right hand.
So, all that belongs to the Lord Jesus, He will share with those who believe in Him.
Ah, truly God is a giving God, and He is not giving all that blessing and showing that wonderful love because we are begging Him to give, but He is offering such a full, free salvation to whosoever will accept it:
My dear reader, what are you doing about it? Are you taking it and thanking God for it, and now seeking to live to His praiSe, or are you treating it with indifference?
Messages of God’s Love 8/2/1908