Here is a hardware store on two legs! It moves about with a little tinkling rattle, and the faster it goes, the more noise it makes. It has a smile too, this queer hardware store, and it talks, if you are interested. Now, boys and girls, what would you like to buy?
If you would like a wash basin, it seems to me that the top layer of our friend’s hat would be much more satisfactory than the basin under his left elbow. That lower one won’t hold water. It leaks. It’s just full of holes, and all the water you pour into it, just slips right through and out again.
Children, when you read this paper, God is pouring the water of His holy Word into your ears. Are you going to let it slip right out again? Will it go, as some people say “in one ear and out the other?” “Therefore,” says the Word of God, “we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.” Hebrews 2:11Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. (Hebrews 2:1).
It is a very solemn thing to be like a leaking vessel. It is dangerous to let slip the Word which you have heard from God. Do not dare to forget that judgment has already fallen upon God’s disobedient people in times gone by, and is yet to fall upon you if you die without Christ.
Keep God’s Word. Treasure it up in your heart. Don’t be a leaking vessel, for you are responsible before God to retain and to obey His Word.
ML 07/02/1950