Julie felt like singing as she mowed the lawn one beautiful spring day. The sun was shining, and it felt so good to work outside and to cut that long grass at last. Pepper, the dog, was following after the lawn mower, eager to explore whatever the mower turned up.
Suddenly, ahead of the mower, Julie noticed a robin’s nest in the grass with a baby robin inside. She quickly got off the mower and went to rescue the nest. But Pepper was also interested in that nest! He started yapping at Julie, trying to jump up and get the baby bird that Julie was now holding high over her head. To make matters worse, the parent birds completely misunderstood Julie’s kindness and started diving at her from overhead. They wanted her to leave their baby alone.
Through all of this commotion, Julie became aware of another strange noise from somewhere behind her. She turned around in time to see the riding lawn mower chewing steadily through a young apple tree. She had forgotten to turn off the motor and the mower had continued on its way until it met something that momentarily stopped it!
What would you have done if you were Julie? She did the only thing there was to do — she started yelling for help!
“Kurt! Kurt! Come and get this dog!” Kurt came running and hauled Pepper away. Julie put the baby bird down in a safe place, then ran to stop the lawn mower.
Julie was trying to save that little bird because she felt sorry for it. But she got muddy footprints on her clothes from her dog, attacks from the parent birds, and lost an apple tree, all in saving the baby bird. This makes me think of the Lord Jesus who went through far more than that so He could be our Savior. He was cruelly betrayed by a friend, nailed by His hands and feet to a rough wooden cross, and then took the awful punishment we deserved from God to pay for our sins. Wasn’t that a wonderfully kind thing to do?
We may find it hard to understand why the Lord Jesus went through all that for sinners who hated Him, but there is a Bible verse that tells us that the Lord is “not willing that any should perish” (2 Peter 3:99The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)). That means that He doesn’t want anyone to go to hell. Have you believed in His love
for you?
Messages of God’s Love 5/15/2022