OUR picture today looks as though two kittens had been having a good time playing with the banjo and making music for themselves until one of the strings snapped.
This probably frightened them some, and they are wondering what is going to happen next. Their master or mistress will be displeased on returning, and finding what the mischievous kittens have done.
It is the chords that enable us to make music on these stringed instruments, and if one chord or string is broken we cannot make good music.
Many of you little readers do not have banjos or guitars or any stringed instrument on which you can play and make music. But everyone who loves Jesus can make music in his heart. You will find many, many verses in the Bible about singing unto the Lord. David says,
Dear reader, it delights the heart of the Lord to hear these songs of praise coming from the lips and hearts of His children.
But suppose a chord is broken! I hear someone asking “How can that be?”
Well, suppose the pleasures or cares of this world come along, like the two kittens, and get to playing with our hearts. They will break one or more of the chords. That is, they will break or disturb our communion with the Lord, and then our hearts will make very poor music.
Let us, dear reader, with God’s help, keep our communion with Him unbroken, so that the melody He loves to hear, may be always rising from our hearts.
God’s Word tells us about a very beautiful song that we shall all sing after the Lord descends into the air and takes us to be with Himself.
“They sung a new song, saying, ‘Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.’” Rev. 5:99And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; (Revelation 5:9).
May everyone who reads this little paper be among the number who will one day sing this “new song”.
And may the thought of God’s wonderful love cause you to be always making melody in your heart to the Lord.
ML 04/24/1927