WHAT an interesting picture we have this week. The children are delighted with their treasure, but, poor little thing, it is in a prison and very likely dreadfully afraid because so many children are standing looking, and it does not know what is going to happen to it. Very likely the poor little bird has been born and raised in a cage and does not know anything about the liberty that God intended it to have.
This gives us a good picture of what it is to be born and raised in this poor world of sin. Man, who has not the Lord Jesus as his Saviour, is under bondage to sin and Satan, and knows nothing of true happiness. Many think that the path of the Christian is a dull and sad one, but those who have lived in that path know it is the only path of true happiness. Sin has the appearance of happiness at the time, but the end is sorrow. True happiness is in knowing Christ as our Saviour and walking in His ways. This is how we can be delivered from the bondage of sin and Satan.
ML 02/03/1918