WHEN I was a boy about twelve years of age I had a power mower and used to go around mowing neighbors’ lawns. One beautiful spring day I was cutting a neighbor’s grass and the mower was singing along chopping up everything in its path. As usual I was daydreaming, but suddenly I spied something ahead that looked different to the green carpet of grass all around. I stopped the mower just in time and there just inches away from the whirling blades was a little ball of gray fur — it was a tiny baby rabbit.
I picked the little thing up in my hands and the neighbor lady gave me a container to put it in until I had finished my job. Then I took the baby bunny home. We fed him from my sister’s doll bottle until he was big enough to eat carrots and rabbit pellets by himself. The once wild little rabbit became perfectly tame and we enjoyed having him as a pet.
You know, boys and girls, that little bunny was just like ourselves. He was just a helpless ball of fur when I found him, and we too must own our helplessness before the Lord Jesus Christ and come to Him as a little child, if we are to be saved. “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Matt. 18:33And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:3).
We all need the Saviour, both young and old, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” Rom. 3:2323For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Romans 3:23).
The Lord Jesus loves you and wants to be your Saviour now! Just as I picked up that helpless little bunny and took him home, so the Lord Jesus wants to pick you up and put His loving arms around you. There you will be perfectly safe and at rest. When He was here on earth we read that “He took the children up in His arms, put His hands on them, and blessed them.”
When the little rabbit was small he could be easily tamed, but had I caught him when he was older and grown, his wild nature would have become so strong that it would be almost impossible to tame him.
Come to the Lord Jesus now while you are young, before another day passes, for the older you get the harder it will be for you to “become as a little child” and own your helpless lost condition before that loving Saviour.
ML-04/21/1974