HOW simple and interesting is our picture. The mules, God's dumb creatures, are dragging along the canal boat, and the little girl is leading them. There is a well-trodden path for them, called a tow-path, and if the little girl follows this path, all will come out safely, but if she should get out of the path, she and the mules would no doubt encounter danger, and the boat too would suffer loss.
Now, dear children, what can we learn from this? There is a way or path, God in His love has provided for little boys and girls, and if they walk in it, they will be perfectly safe.
God tells us in His word of two ways; the broad road, and the narrow way. All who have not come to the Lord Jesus, and owned Him as their Saviour, are on the broad road that leads to destruction. How sad to be found on this road.
Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth and the life," so He is the way to life everlasting.
If you are in His path, dear children, and older ones, too, you will "desire the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby." Even the dumb animals need food, and God has made provision for them, so we who are the Lord's, need food for our souls,—The Word of God.
Messages of God’s Love 5/16/1926