IT IS toward evening so we can easily guess why this girl is leading the cows homeward, and why she is carrying a jug in her hand. She has found her pets in a fine meadow lot where they have been nibbling the sweet grass all day, so she will have her jug filled with milk quickly when she begins her task.
How much people depend upon milk! We need it when we are tiny children to make us grow; we need it every day in cooking our food, and we specially need it when we are sick to give us strength.
But this kind of milk only feeds our natural bodies. God has told us in the Bible that we need food to make us grow spiritually. We eat our meals every day, and how weak we feel, if we have to go without them. Some claim to know Jesus and neglect to read His Word and what weak Christians it does make them. Dear children, do read God’s precious book every day for food for your soul, and think carefully about what you read.
We eat our food and then digest it; now when we read what the Lord says to us, we want to apply it to our lives, this is like the digesting of our food. It is a very, very sad thing to read the Scriptures and not take heed to what they tell us.
ML 06/02/1912