DO you see baby as he cries, over his spilt bowl of milk? What a nice, chubby, fat fellow he is! But oh! what disappointment and sorrow is written in that face! The milk is gone, and he cannot gather it up again. Perhaps he has been careless, and now he must do without the nice milk which he has been enjoying just a moment before.
Well, dear children, there are many kinds of trouble in this world of sin. Some kinds of trouble can be removed, and some cannot; some kinds seem of great importance, and some of little consequence, but I want to ask you if ever you were troubled about your sins? What a far more important matter than spilling a bowl of milk, or losing some valuable article.
Some people go on in their sins and do not seem to be troubled about them at all. They never seem to think that they will have to give an account to God for them, and that if they don’t get their sins forgiven in this world, through the blood of Christ, they will be lost forever. Our dear baby boy is crying because he has lost his milk; but how terrible it will be for those who lose their own souls, because they have neglected God’s salvation through Christ! Think of this question which Jesus asks:
“What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Mark 8:36, 37.)
Again let me ask you, if you have been troubled about your sins? Remember if you do not get them forgiven, they will sink you down into hell, and there you will have infinite trouble forever. But if you bring your trouble to Jesus He will deliver you. He will save you from your sins, and cleanse you whiter than snow through His precious blood. If you are in trouble about your sins, come to Him.
“THOUGH YOUR SINS BE AS SCARLET, THEY SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW; THOUGH THEY BE RED LIKE CRIMSON, THEY SHALL BE AS WOOL.” ISA. 1:18.
ML 03/25/1917