WHEN will you do as I tell you?” is what parents are often heard to say to their children. One little boy I heard answer, “When I am as big as father.” This answer was not good. We read in the Bible of a great and wise man who served God all his life. His name was Samuel. When did he begin? When he was a very little boy; and God honored him in many ways. Samuel had a good mother, and she brought him to the Lord as soon as. he was old enough to be left.
Perhaps my little reader also has a good mother, and is saying, “I would like to serve• God.”. See then what the Bible says about Samuel. First he obeyed his mother. When? While he was yet a little boy. And he did what Eli, God’s priest, told him to do.. When? While he was still a little boy. And God called him. When? While he was still a little boy. And Samuel feared and obeyed God. ‘When? While he was still only a boy. It is a beautiful story, and you can read it for yourself in 1 Samuel 3. Tt begins by speaking of him as the child Samuel.
God at different times, and in various ways, spoke in olden time by His prophets (and Samuel when grown up was one of them); but now in our time He speaks to. us by His Son, Jesus, the Saviour. ‘Will you be obedient to God, and listen to the loving words of Jesus? You are not too young for God to call. You are not too young to listen and obey Jesus, and answer, like Samuel, while Jesus says, “Come unto Me,” “Here am I.” When? Now.
Messages of God’s Love 2/6/1921