Great Grandma lived on a farm in Iowa, and she had a little flock of ducks that she kept. These ducks were supposed to stay in the back yard, away from the road, so that they would not stray away and get lost. But it seemed like the ducks didn’t remember very long, and soon they would come waddling around to the front yard. Great Grandma would say, “You ducks, get back in the back yard!”
Then they would turn around and back they went to the back yard where they belonged. Pretty soon here they would come again, and Great Grandma would say again, “You ducks, get back in the back yard!”
Those ducks are a lot like people. We often forget, and God has to show us again and again what is the right way for our feet, He knew we would forget easily. So He gave us His Word, the Bible, to read every day to show us the right path.
ML-12/07/1980