WHAT a busy time harvest is with all its hard work! Many are so tired when night comes that they can hardly sleep. Have you thought, dear children, why it is that man should have to w3rk so hard? Do you think it was God’s intention that man should need to do so? If we turn to God’s Word, we see there that God told Adam, after he sinned, that “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground.” Gen. 3:1919In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Genesis 3:19).
This was the result of sin, and we all share in this result and need not expect to escape it. If we do not get difficulties in one way, they will come in another, to remind us what a ruined creation this is, and that we are a part of it. But, dear children, you can be happy in the midst of it, because God has sent His Son to bear the awful penalty of our sins, so that we may not have to be banished from His presence, but that we may come to Him, and call Him our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. Then we know that when we leave this world we shall go to be with Him who has so loved us. Then there will be no more of the present condition—sorrow, pain and death—but we shall be perfect and like the Lord Jesus.
Is not that enough to make us happy, and sing while we are in this world? But some of you may say, “I like to get into the hay fields, for I have lots of fun there.” That may be so, and then when night comes you get so tired, and even get to crying before going to bed, so after all, it is not as nice as you might think it is, but when we get to be with the Lord Jesus, there will be no crying, and everyone will be filled with joy that will be there; and the Lord Jesus can make you happy in this world, but not with the things that are here, but by thinking of Him.
Messages of God’s Love 7/5/1914