BOYS do love to ride on a horse’s back, and two may ride quite comfortably, but when more attempt to get on we may be sure they are apt to all slide off, and especially when there are four. It is natural for the last one, as he finds himself sliding off, to hold on to the one in front, with the hopes of keeping himself from falling, not thinking that it only means that all four will fall to the ground. No doubt, you will say it would be better for the last one to drop off, rather than pull all the others down with him.
How this may speak to us of many boys, and girls too who are not contented to do wrong things themselves, but they will try all they can to get others to go with them, and share with them in the wrong they want to do..
The poor boy in our picture I suppose is not desiring to pull the others down, but he wants to hold himself up at the expense of the rest, and that shows he is not thinking of the good of the others. This too is as common as can be in this world. Many care not what may happen to others, just so they get along. It was not so with the Lord Jesus. His desire was for the good of others, and that is what brought Him down from the glory. He thought of our need, and loved us so much that He gave His life for us, and thus died in our stead, and bore the awful punishment we deserved. He, being holy, exhausted the judgment that would have held us forever.
May we who know Him as our Saviour, seek in every way to manifest to others the character of our blessed Lord. Seek to do for others, seek for their good, remembering what our blessed Lord has done for us.
Messages of God’s Love 2/27/1921