DO you know, dear children, from our early childhood till we leave this world, we are all building something. The little child delights to have building blocks, and while building with them may seem to be only play, nevertheless, his little mind is developing by it, and such things are no doubt the first steps towards doing something better. It is important that we should be always building something good, then we will have good results. The Scripture says,
According to what we do, we shall have results. I will give you an instance of a young boy who said,
“I do not care the snap of my finger for what my father says.”
That was a very foolish boy. He thought he knew better than his father, and he was forgetting what God has told us in His Word,
That was poor kind of building he was doing, for he was despising his father instead of honoring him, and he is bound to suffer for such a statement, unless he owns it and judges himself for it.
Our life here is very short, and it is very necessary that we should take heed to God’s Word, and go according to it from our early days, and that will be good building, and we shall have good results, for that building will stand. The foundation is Christ. That is, you should begin with Christ as your Saviour, and by taking and acting upon all the wise instructions that God gives in His Word, you will be building on that foundation.
ML 08/10/1924