WHAT a sad picture we get here of two poor children. They seem so sad and discouraged. They may have been looking for work, and could not get anything to do, and now, tired and hungry, they have sat down to rest.
What a world this is of suffering! How much we might be doing to help others, giving to the poor for immediate help, and seeking to help them to get work, so they may earn their own living; and above all, to point them to the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for sinners, to redeem them from this world and all its consequences.
If you know the Lord Jesus as your Saviour, as the One who died for you, then you are told to “Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness.” That is, to use what temporal things you have, and give to the poor, and help them in that way, and they will become your friends, and you will then have their ear, and they will listen to what you bring before them of God’s Word. You could read to them some beautiful verses, such as,
There are many other beautiful verses that might be given to the unsaved, and the Scripture is full of words of comfort for the believer in the Lord Jesus.
ML 03/12/1933