Who dresses you and feeds you?
Your dear mother.
But how does your mother get money to buy your clothes and your food?
Father brings it home.
How does your father get money?
He works all day long, and he gets money and brings it home to mother. He says to your mother, ‘Buy some food with this money, and use some of it for the children.’ Will your father give his money to buy food for you?
Yes, and it is very kind of him. Do you love your father?
Of course you do.
Why does your father go out to his work?
So that you may have plenty of food. While he is working, he often thinks of you, and he hopes that he will find you a good child when he comes home. You are glad to see him, I know.
Sometimes you run to meet him, and when he sits down you climb on his knee.
Who made your father love you at first?
It was God.
Your father loves you very much, so he gives you all you need. He pays some of his money for a house so that you can live in it with him.
If your father were to die, what would you do, for you would then be a fatherless child?
Could your father die?
Oh yes, some little children have no father. I have heard of a little child whose father fell down from a high ladder and was killed. Another child’s father was kicked by a horse and died. Some children’s fathers fall sick and die.
Perhaps your father may die, but God can keep him alive. You can pray to God to keep him alive. In the morning you can say, ‘O God, let Father come home safely this evening.’
But if God were to let your father die, you would still have one Father left. Who do I mean? What do you say to God in your prayer?
‘Our Father, which art in heaven.’
Yes, if you are one of God’s children you have a Father in heaven, besides the father you have at home, for God is your Father.
Can your heavenly Father die?
No, never.
Does He love you?
Yes. He loves you even more than your other father does. He is always thinking of you. He is always looking at you. He gives you many good things. He will take you to live with Him in heaven some day.
Let us think of the things which God has given you. Let us count them:
1. Father, to work for you.
2. Mother, to take care of you.
3. A house to live in.
4. A bed to sleep in.
5. Fire to warm you.
6. Clothes to wear.
7. Food to eat.
8. Breath every moment.
Questions
What is it your father does to get money?
Why does he buy things for you with his money?
What sad things have happened to some children’s fathers?
Is there a Father that cannot die?
God is full of pity
A verse from the Bible for you to learn:
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. Psa. 103:13.