Poor little girl! She has just left the house with her slice of bread as happy as can be, but she is no sooner outside the gate than she meets with the geese who dispute the right of way, and one of them is just about to catch the bread out of her hand! The troubles of life have already begun with her, and, no doubt, seem as great to her as the greater troubles arc to those who are older.
The mingling of the bitter with the sweet begins in the early day, and continues all through life.
God did not create us to bear sorrow and have lots of trouble, but we disobeyed God’s Word, and all the sorrow and trouble came in as the result. So we can see what a terrible thing disobedience is.
Children should obey their parents.
We would never have seen such a picture as we have this week, if sin had not come into the world. Everything is in disorder, and sorrow and trouble on every side.
The Lord Jesus came into this world to take away sin, so He died for us that our sins might be blotted out of God’s sight forever, and He, too, by His death redeemed the whole creation, and when the time comes, He will blot out sin and all its results from the world.
May we not forget that the first sin was disobedience, and therefore, let us seek to obey, whether it is our parents, our school teachers, or our employers, but above all let us seek to obey God’s Word.
ML 06/25/1944