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CALVES KNOW WHERE THE MILK IS

    A teenage Bible class teacher gave his class a list of four questions to be answered anonymously.  The questions were: (1) Is God alive today? (2) Does He know you? (3) How much longer will God let this earth stand? (4) What in nature proves to you that God is in control?

    One student answered as follows:  (1) Yes; (2) Yes: (3) I don't know; and, (4) Calves know where the milk is.

    Calves do know where the milk is, don't they?  That observant teenager obviously knew something about farm life.  At least one important lesson had been learned from life on the farm.

    The Psalmist speaks of God's two great "books":  Nature and Inspiration.  (Psalm 19)  The first six verses deal with the book of nature.  The remainder of the psalm lauds God's spoken and written law.  It is this book that converts the soul. (v.7)

    But nature also speaks eloquently of the Creator.  The heavens and firmament declare every day in every land and language that God is. (Hebrews 11:6)  In fact, nature speaks so convincingly that all who do not know Him are "without excuse". (See Romans 1:20)

    A little boy was asked by a skeptic, "Son, can you tell me where God is?"  The lad replied with a question of his own: "Mister, can you tell me where He is not?"  God's fingerprints are all over the place.  It is hard to imagine that all we call "nature" could have happened by coincidence.  It must have been created!  Truly, "the fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God'" (Psalm 14:1)

    Paul said, in reference to those who no longer knew God, "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to...man,...birds,...beasts, and creeping things." (Romans 1:22, 23)

    There is something wrong with a calf which does not know where the milk is.  And, there is something wrong with a man who does not know where God is.

                                                                      Edward L. Anderson

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