Dear Children,
Just look at this picture of Pockets. Isn’t he cute, all dressed up in a shirt and pants with suspenders and sunglasses.
Gramma and I drove over to my sister’s house to have a visit and also to see Pockets go through some of his tricks. My sister has been teaching him how to do these tricks for over a year.
Gramma and I thought that Pockets must be a real smart dog to learn all these tricks.
In this picture he is all dressed up and going for a walk. When my sister takes him out for a walk, most people will stop and say “hi” to him and shake his paw, and some will even take a picture! Pockets just loves the attention.
My sister has spent a lot of time teaching Pockets all these tricks, and he listens very well. Children, when your Sunday school teacher spends time with you reading the holy Bible, do you listen really well and not play? I hope you pay attention.
When I saw Pockets walking so nicely with my sister, I thought of the Bible verse in James 3:78: “Every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
Dear children, we have seen elephants, parrots, serpents and dolphins all tamed by man. Men and women have spent their lives training animals and birds, but God says, “The tongue can no man tame.” Isn’t this sad? Your tongue and mine are very hard to control. Let me tell you two wonderful verses from the Bible. “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-109That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9‑10)). So instead of using your mouth and tongue for saying bad words and wrong things, you will be able to use it for the glory of God!
In Mark 5, the Lord Jesus found a man who needed to be saved, and then in verse 19 He told the man, “Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee.” I’m sure this man would use his tongue to speak good things about the Lord Jesus Christ!
Just like my sister teaches Pockets how to do tricks, God’s Word, the holy Bible, teaches you and me how we can be saved from our sins and then live to please Him.
You know, Pockets always gets a reward for doing all his tricks, and he just loves those rewards. What about you and me? Yes, we receive something wonderful from God also! It’s found in Romans 6:23: “The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” What a marvelous gift! Eternal life in heaven with Jesus!
And do you know what, children? It would be another wonderful gift for Gramma and me to see all you children up there in heaven with us!
Bye bye for now — we love you,
Gramma and Grampa
P.S. Here’s a good Bible verse to memorize: “Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile [dishonesty]” (Psalm 34:1313Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. (Psalm 34:13)).
Oh, be careful, little tongue, what you say,
Oh, be careful, little tongue, what you say.
There’s a Father up above
Looking down in tender love,
Oh, be careful, little tongue, what you say.