IN our picture today it is hard to tell just what the children are doing, but they are busy with something that seems quite interesting.
The girl on the left is holding her hands out as though she had just had them in the water, and the little one in front of her is stooping over at the water's edge.
Another is going with her hands full to her older sister, while two others are playing with their treasures on the end of the big log.
Whether they are collecting pebbles, shells, or seaweed, or getting mud for mud-pies, or small animals of some kind, it is hard to say. But it represents the story of life,—your life, and mine. We are all looking for—seeking something.
Most people, when old enough, have to look for work so that they can earn the money they need for food and clothes.
Many are looking for pleasure. Others spend much time searching for knowledge.
But some day our need and desire for all these things will be over, for we cannot carry them with us when we leave this world.
There is something, however, that can give us joy and blessing both in this life and in the life to come. This treasure we should all seek if we have not already found it.
The Lord wants you to know and love Him now, and He wants you to be with Him throughout eternity. And if you would like to know how much He wants you, how much He loves you, you will find the answer in John 3:16,16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten. Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
Dear young reader, if you do not already know Jesus as your Saviour, believe in Him now.
Does not such love, wholly undeserved by you, a poor lost sinner, touch your heart?
Messages of God’s Love 11/9/1930