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 14:16-24, 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. 55:1.
ML 02/28/1909