Be sure your sin will find you out, boys,” said the old Christian postman as he passed a group of schoolboys arranging a “bet” by the roadside.
“I’m sure if your parents knew you were spending your money in that way they would be very much displeased.”
The boys separated half ashamed, and more than half afraid they might be found out. There is always a fear in wrongdoers, and especially in the first stage of the path of sin before the conscience is hardened.
Bob Asher hid his “bet slip” in the playground, where his sister found it, and knowing what it meant, brought it to him. When Bob saw he was found out, his countenance fell, and he made a clean breast of the whole affair to his parents. That incident of early school-days left a lasting impression on the boy’s mind, and taught him the bitterness of having a bad conscience, through doing that which he knew to be wrong.
Bob is a Christian young man, saved by grace and serving the Lord Jesus, and often tells, when warning others of the deceitfulness of sin, that first experience he had of the misery of the way of transgressors, when he made his first and last bet, and was found out.
“Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away,” Proverbs 4:14,1514Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 15Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. (Proverbs 4:14‑15).
ML 09/11/1938