I remember seeing a picture of a little girl and her duck. The duck was looking right into the face of the little girl. The little girl was looking directly at him with her lips open as if she were talking to her friend. The title underneath the picture was, “Can’t You Talk?”
I can imagine that the little girl had been talking away to her little duck, but, of course, he never answered her. We all know why—a duck can quack, but it cannot talk and it never will. It was born a duck, and it will never be anything else.
I sometimes think of this when we try to speak to boys and girls about the Lord Jesus. If we talk about games, pets or school there is lots of chatter. But somehow when we begin to speak about the Lord Jesus, the Bible and heaven, they do not have much to say and want to change the subject. Why is this?
You and I were born sinners, and we need to be saved (born again). In John’s gospel in the third chapter, the Lord Jesus says to Nicodemus, “Ye must be born again.” I did not want to talk to anyone about the Lord Jesus either, until I was born again. When the Lord Jesus saved me and washed away my sins, I found that I wanted to be with others who also trusted my Saviour. Together we could talk about His love.
What do you do when someone wants to talk with you about the Lord Jesus? Can you join in the conversation, or do you want to change the subject?
ML-10/16/1983