HOW naughtily the little baby is acting; he does not want to take his supper from his kind sister. Very likely he wants to get someone else to feed him, perhaps, his tired mamma. Don’t you think he should be thankful that any one, is willing to take the trouble to give him his food? I am sure you will all say. Yes, he should be thankful, and take it willingly. Yes, he is the one who is to get the benefit and so should, with gladness and thankfulness. receive it from the hand of the one who is so willing to give to him.
Well, dear children, there is a wonderful supper God has provided for man and He would have all come to it. What may we call that supper? I think we may call it the supper of salvation.
If we turn to Luke 14:16-2416Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: 17And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. 18And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. 19And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. 20And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 21So that servant came, and showed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. 22And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. 23And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. (Luke 14:16‑24), we shall see what the Lord Jesus says about it. You will notice that the man He speaks about made a great supper and bade, or invited, many. Then he sent a servant, when all was ready, to tell them to come. They acted something like this naughty little baby, they would not come, and they made excuses. Is not that very bad? Ah, surely, it is, and that is the way a great many are treating God. He has provided salvation for all who will accept it and how many there are who will not believe in Jesus.
How is it with you, dear reader? Have you taken salvation through Christ Jesus, which God is so willingly offering? Oh, think of it, how much worse it is to refuse, or treat with indifference, God’s offer of salvation, than to refuse food that we need for our bodies, from the hand of some kind friend. The latter would only be an insult to a kind friend, and a temporal loss to the one who would refuse; but the former would be an insult to God and an everlasting loss, and not only so, but God must punish forever the one who persists in refusing. May you not refuse, but accept salvation freely from God. and remember that it cost Him the giving up of His Son to die on the cross that you might have that salvation.
“Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.” Isa. 55:11Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. (Isaiah 55:1).
ML 02/28/1909