You see, papa is an artist and his little son likes to imitate him. He has climbed up on his father’s high stool, and has taken his palette and brush, and is pretending that he is painting.
How good all this seems to us in childhood, and now that some of us are older, we can look back and think of these times when we loved to do the things that papa or mamma did. The reason we did so, was because they loved us and we loved them.
There is a lesson we may learn from this, for there is One who loves us much more than even papa or mamma can, and He is God. The way He has shown that great love to us, was by giving His only Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die for us on Calvary’s cross, so that His holy and righteous claims which stood against us could all be met, and He could righteously let us go free. Is that not wonderful love? Surely we must say it is!
Then if we do believe that God has so loved us, and that we are now His chiren, let us seek to imitate Him, and show love to others,
ML 04/25/1943