THESE dear little children are having lots of fun playing in the hay. Their time is spent, not in making clothes, or in preparing food, or keeping house, but just playing, and yet they get clothes and food and have a home to live in. How is that?
God cares for them. He has provided a father and mother for them, and gives the father the ability to earn the living, and the mother to take care of them at home, so while the dear children have not the ability to provide for themselves, God takes care of them in that way.
There is something God wants them to do, and that is to obey their parents; so while they are not able to do these other things that God has given their parents to do, they must remember that God wants them to obey, that is, to do what they are told, for the Scripture says,
A disobedient child gets himself in trouble, for while he is disobeying it might seem very pleasant to him, but afterward comes the punishment and then he is not happy, for he is reaping the result of disobedience. It is so all through life, for there is never a time that we should please ourselves, and if we do, God will let us reap a bad result.
Those who disobey God’s Word, and will not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, shall suffer the awful results for ever, and that will be banishment from God’s presence.
Those who obey His Word, shall be saved from that awful result, and shall spend eternity with the Lord Jesus their Saviour. Walking in His ways, and obeying His Word always bring blessing.
ML 08/28/1927