THE CHIILDREN'S LESSONS

The lambs we see in the fields in the spring learn very young to feed with the older sheep and on the same food. So we are all learning to feed on the Lord Jesus so that we should enjoy the grace of God. The epistle to Titus, which speaks of 'believing children', tells us that the grace of God has come as a teacher whilst we are in this world, which is therefore our schoolroom. This grace has brought with it salvation without which we could not avoid the wrong things and do the right things. We have therefore every help to do our lessons properly and the first one is to refuse everything that is displeasing to God.

Then we have to learn to behave ourselves well, to do what is right to other people and then to reverence God. If we had written the Bible we might have put these lessons the other way round, but Scripture is always wiser than we are. So we must first of all be careful for ourselves what we think, say and do.

We are always in God's school and are not waiting to be dismissed. We are however always looking for the coming of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ. First He will come secretly for those whom He has redeemed and then He will come in glory with them all. Will you be amongst them?

J.C.Evershed

London