GLADYS lived near a large blueberry farm. In the summertime when the fruit was ripe many of the neighborhood children would come to pick blueberries and earn five cents for each quart they picked. Not all the children were honest, however; some of them cheated. They would put dirt and stones in the bottom of their quart baskets and fill them up the rest of the way with blueberries. They tried to make it appear that they had picked more berries than they really had.
Some of the children told Gladys that she should put some dirt and stones in the bottom of her basket, but she refused. Gladys was a Christian girl and knew that this would not be pleasing to the Lord. So she always picked a full quart of berries.
It does not pay to cheat. Sometimes we have tried to deceive others, and we thought we have got away with it. But God sees everything we do. We may think we are fooling mother and father, but we can never fool God. Every thought, word and deed is known to Him.
Every sin in your life and mine must be answered for one day. The Lord Jesus has answered to God for all the sins of those who trust Him as their Saviour. Those who do not have Him as their Saviour will one day have to answer to God for their own sins and that will mean eternal judgment.
ML-10/19/1969