No doubt most of my young readers have been much interested in little rabbits, and have watched their funny antics and taken great delight in feeding them.
They are creatures suitable for man’s food, and so can be accepted from God’s hand with thanksgiving for that purpose.
There is another thing which I expect you all know about them and that is they are very destructive. They tear the bark off young fruit trees and thereby kill them; and many other things which cause the farmers to want to get rid of them.
So, here in our picture we see a trap laid for the little creature, and he is just about to go into it. It may be that the farmer has been troubled by these rabbits, or bunnies, as some children call found this an easy way to catch them and may also need some for food and he found this an easy way to catch them Man cannot be called an enemy to them, because he catches them for food, but we may learn a lesson from this in remembering that Satan has traps for our feet to catch us and lead us into sin, but he does that because he is an enemy of God, and wants to spoil all of God’s creation. So what he does is to destroy.
If that little rabbit only knew that it was a trap he was about to enter, he would not go in, but he does not know it and he is enticed by the food that is put in sight. And that is the way Satan tries to do; he puts something attractive before people to lead them on and on, still he gets them into that which will bear bad results.
The way to avoid Satan’s snares or traps is, to fear to displease the Lord, as the Scriptures give us, “THE; FEAR OF THE LORD IS A FOUNTAIN OF LIFE, TO DEPART FROM THE SNARES OF DEATH.” Prov. 14:2727The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. (Proverbs 14:27).
ML 02/11/1912