WOULD any four children be happier than these we have before us! They have been gathering wild roses by the roadside, and big sister has to carry the bouquet, for it is all that the little folks can do to hold on to the donkey.
What a humble creature this donkey is, serving all the children! He seems willing to go wherever the little girl wishes to guide him, and to carry his load of tiny tots, too.
I wonder if you are as ready to serve others as this patient animal is? Most boys and girls want their own way, and are often very naughty about giving up their way, so as to please their playmates, or their parents.
It is displeasing to the Lord to have His children think only about themselves, and to be unwilling to serve others. Our natural hearts are very independent and proud, but if we love Jesus, we must seek to yield our wills to Him He would have us love and serve others.
O! dear reader, believe in Him now, if you have not done so in the past, and then you shall know the preciousness of that verse, “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things,” Rom. 8:3232He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32).
He will give us all things according to His love and wisdom, but not according to the desires of our natural hearts.
ML-05/16/1920