SOME boys and girls believe in Jesus, and wish they could do something to show that they love Him. Without doubt God puts this desire in their hearts, but they often want to do some big thing, instead of what God gives them to do.
They forget that they can serve God and please the Lord Jesus if they obey father and mother, learn their lessons and do their work well. Two stories in the Bible show what we mean.
One day a man called his youngest son, and sent him on an errand. He had to take some corn and loaves and cheeses to the captain of the army in which his brothers were. This boy, David, did as he was told. When he came to his brothers he heard about Goliath. If he had not obeyed, do you think God would have used him to kill the giant, and diver Israel from the Philistines?
There was another boy who was tang some barley loaves, and two small fishes somewhere one day, when a man told Jesus about him, and Jesus fed five thousand people with them. When that boy left his home with food, he did not know that Jesus would use it.
So it is that God can use us, who have taken the Lord Jesus as our Saviour, if we do the little things for Him. Of course no one can get to heaven by doing. The only way to be saved from hell is to believe that the Lord Jesus bore our punishment, and did everything to bring us to God. But if we are saved, then the way to do things for Jesus is to obey our parents, and do as unto Him all the little things given us to do.
“Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord ... And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.” Col. 3:20, 23.
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