Poor hungry little kittens! How they do long for the milk they usually find in the bowl. The grasshopper seems not to understand their plight.
When milk was put in regularly, do you suppose they appreciated it? Human beings are inclined to take the supplying of their daily needs for granted, and then complain when these provisions are cut off.
Now, as many know, the word “milk” is sometimes used to mean the Word of God. How easy it is now to obtain a Bible and to read it, and thus obtain the necessary food for our souls. Yet this food is not prized as highly by a great many people as it was when people had to save their earnings for many months, and then walk perhaps fifty miles to buy a Bible.
The empty bowl suggests two things which show the necessity of feeding well on the “sincere milk of the Word” while we can do so. One is, we may lose our eyesight, and we then would wish we had read the Bible more, and learned more about the Lord Jesus. The other is the fact that in some countries people are not allowed to own a copy or to read the Scriptures.
We cannot tell how long we may have our eyesight, or how long we may be permitted to read God’s Word. If we have taken Christ as our Saviour, we do know that whatever of this blessed Book we have fed upon and hidden in our hearts, is ours to enjoy throughout all eternity.
ML 05/28/1939