What fun these children are having at keeping shop. “Mr. Jimmy” looks very wise, but his big spy-glass and the hammer look to be rather clumsy instruments for mending watches.
Probably the three at the end of the room are only playing; and it is quite well that they should all be having fun of a wholesome sort. It is pleasant to think again that the Spirit of God takes notice of the activities of children.
Since you are not playing, but only looking at the picture, perhaps you may learn a good lesson from the notice, “Time taught while you wait.”
Our lesson is that God’s great clock of salvation points only to one time.
To learn that now is God’s day of salvation, is not merely to learn the text in our memory, but to receive Christ as our own Saviour in our heart.
While you look at this picture and enjoy its fun, don’t forget that now is the best time, and God’s time to be saved.
ML 02/11/1940