MRS. MEYERS had made some chocolate pudding and left it on the kitchen table to cool. Having to go out a little while, she called out to Joe, her little son, “Joe, I’m going out. Now you be a good boy, won’t you, and don’t touch the pudding!”
“No, Mother, I won’t,” he assured her, and went on with his play. A little later he got tired of playing and sighted the chocolate pudding. How good it looked, and he was hungry. Then the evil thought came into his heart that one spoonful of the pudding wouldn’t be missed, so in spite of his promise to his mother he got a spoon out of the drawer and tasted a little of the pudding. It was as good as it looked, so Joe took another spoonful, and then another, and another. Before Joe realized it, most of the pudding was gone.
Then it was that his conscience smote him for what he had done. He had disobeyed his dear mother. What could he do now? Even as he stood there crestfallen and in fear, he heard her steps coming in the door. But one sin leads to another. He suddenly thought, “I’ll blame it on the cat.” So, hastily picking up the cat, he shoved its nose and front feet into the pudding, and when mother came into the room he tried to look unconcerned, but mother wasn’t fooled. Joe tried to blame the cat, but mother said, “Cats don’t eat pudding with a spoon. Look at that dirty spoon you left on the table!”
Joe was punished and sent upstairs to his bedroom and told to remain there until his mother called for him.
The Bible says, “Be sure your sin will find you out.” Numbers 32:2323But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out. (Numbers 32:23). It was a good thing for Joe that his mother did find out what he had done and that he was punished for his sin; because, dear boys and girls, sin unconfessed has a hardening effect on the conscience, and the punishment that Joe received that day no doubt helped to keep him from worse evil.
The Lord Jesus shed His blood on Calvary’s cross to wash away sin, and this is the only thing in the sight of God that can take away its scarlet stain. “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7).
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C stands for Children
O stands for Old People
M stands for Middle Aged
E stands for Everybody
Young folks, old folks,
Folks of every town,
White folks, black folks.
Yellow, red and brown:
Jesus died to save them,
Take away their sin,
And to put the sunlight of His love within.
ML-07/20/1969