THIS little girl seems to be all alone, and very thoughtful. What book can she be reading? She seems so serious, that it surely must be God’s book, the Bible. What a different book it is from all others! You know if we really think as we read its pages, it goes down very deep into our hearts, and many times condemns our thoughts and actions—for it is God that is speaking to us in the Bible.
God has made His Book to fit all classes of people, and all ages. A tiny child may turn to the simple gospels and there find the way to be saved; then the grown-up man, very wise in the things of this world, may read the same pages, and see himself there a lost man, a stranger to Jesus. God wants both, the young and old, to come to Jesus and get forgiveness of sins. You cannot be happy till you do.
The little girl in our picture may be reading a bit to herself before she goes to school. Do you do this? God is pleased to see you searching the Scriptures for yourself, and not depending only on the family worship, or hearing God’s Word read at meetings. See Psa. 119:0 and 15. “Thy Word have I hid in- heart, that I might not sin against Thee. I will meditate in Thy precepts, and have respect unto Thy ways.”
Besides reading God’s Word, we find prayer so important. Do you remember the story of Daniel in the Bible? He learned to come alone before God often in prayer, and that while he was but a boy. Later on, he was thrown into a den of lions because he continued to go to his room several times a day and pray to the true, living God. Do you pray? Can you say to God: “My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up?” Psa. 5:33My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. (Psalm 5:3).
Messages of God’s Love 7/6/1913