WHAT a beautiful scene of peace and happiness. The day’s toil is over and the peaceful, patient oxen do not need to be driven home, but gladly follow their master, for they know the one who feeds them, and takes care of them, and they know too the way to the barn.
The master is happy to have his wife come to meet him with the little baby, so they can walk on to the house together, and then she will soon have supper on the table.
This world would have been a wonderful place if sin had not come into it. All is ruined as the result, and so there are more unhappy homes than happy ones. Many do not know what it is to take everything from God’s hand as the One who is using all the results of sin to teach us many lessons, and to cause us to come to Him and acknowledge Him.
Have you come to Him through the Lord Jesus Christ? Have you acknowledged Him as the One who is giving you all things. and has even supplied the Saviour who is the Lord Jesus Christ, His beloved Son?
There are many today who do not have even the intelligence of the oxen, for the oxen know their master who feeds them, and many people do not know God, and yet He gives them food and raiment, and they do not even think to give Him thanks for their food.
If we have accepted the Lord Jesus as our Saviour, we then gladly, not only praise and thank Him for such a Saviour, but we will gladly thank Him for all the temporal mercies, such as, food and raiment and all the things we have in this life, for it is through Him He freely gives us all things.
Messages of God’s Love 10/23/1921