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 pays no attention to them! They are evidently hungry, still he keeps 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.
This is very much unlike the way God has treated us. He gave His Son to be a sacrifice for us on Calvary, and charged Him there with sin, and turned His face away from Him and left Him alone. And this is not all that God has done—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.
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 God’s blessed salvation, and thanking Him for it, and now seeking to live to His praise? Or are you treating His gift with indifference?
Messages of God’s Love 10/5/1913