{"id":286,"date":"2014-01-26T07:08:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T07:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?page_id=286"},"modified":"2014-01-26T07:37:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T07:37:40","slug":"a-live-birthday-present","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?page_id=286","title":{"rendered":"A Live Birthday Present!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lamb<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0When Robin \u00a0turned eight years old, he was\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>given a live birthday present. His father owned a sheep farm and he had promised Robin, ever since he was very small, that someday he would have a lamb of his \u00a0very own. Robin\u2019s birthday came in the middle of lambing season and the day he turned eight, twin lambs were born. One of them was given to him for his birthday present. <\/span><\/p>\n

How happy he was! Probably no lamb had ever been loved so much Robin thought and thought about what name he would give it. Several were suggested, but none seemed to be just what Robin wanted. Finally his mother said, \u201cWhy not call the lamb \u2018Treasure\u2019 since you like him so much?\u201d When Robin found \u00a0out that treasure meant something very precious, he decided that that was a good name, and when he told the Iamb what his name was to be, he added, \u201cAnd don\u2019t forget to come running when I call, \u2018Treasure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But, alas, Treasure was not able to do much running. The mother sheep was unable to care for two <\/span>lambs, and Treasure was the one who went short. His little wobbly legs did not grow stronger, and his <\/span>bleat was weak and pitiful.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Treasure was some days old when another lamb was found dead beside its mother.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWell,\u201d said Robin\u2019s father, \u201chere\u2019s a mother that has no lamb, and a lamb whose mother can\u2019t feed it. <\/span>What do you think we should do, Robin?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Even an eight-year old could figure out the answer to that question.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not put my lamb with the sheep whose lamb died?\u201d said Robin. So they tried doing this.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But Treasure wasn\u2019t welcome. The mother of the dead lamb refused to take any notice of him. So <\/span>Robin\u2019s dad tried putting the foster mother and Treasure in a small pen. \u201cWe\u2019ll see what a night together <\/span>will do,\u201d he told Robin.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For hours Robin lay awake listening to the bleating of his hungry lamb. It made him sad to hear his pet <\/span>calling for its supper. In the morning they found that the mother sheep had jumped out of the pen and <\/span>deserted the lamb. Robin was angry with her, but his father explained, \u201cIt is the law of nature, Son. She <\/span>knows this lamb doesn\u2019t belong to her. But there\u2019s another way, and we\u2019ll try that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robin\u2019s Dad took the dead lamb, took \u00a0the skin off it and put it over Treasure like a jacket. The lamb <\/span>looked very odd in it. The skin didn\u2019t fit very well, so they tied it on with some twine. Robin only knew his <\/span>Treasure by its wobbly legs and the weak bleating that went on continuously. He was most excited as his <\/span>father carried the lamb over to the mother of the dead lamb and put it down beside her.<\/span><\/p>\n

At first, she turned away as before; then she sniffed cautiously at him, and as she caught the scent of her <\/span>own lamb, all was changed. She welcomed Treasure and poured out her love on him like any other <\/span>mother sheep \u00a0would\u00a0 do. From that day on Treasure was looked after very well, and every time Robin <\/span>went to play with him, he seemed to have grown even bigger.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the story about Treasure, but\u00a0\u00a0 Robin thought a lot about the whole thing and \u00a0asked his father <\/span>more about it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just like a parable from the Bible\u201d, his father said, \u201c Remember how I told you that it was a law of <\/span>nature that kept the mother sheep from wanting Treasure for her lamb?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Robin DID remember and said that every mother sheep only loved its own lamb.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it\u2019s like that for us\u201d, his father went on, \u201cJust as it was nature that kept the mother sheep from <\/span>taking Treasure for her own, so it is sin that keeps us from becoming one of God\u2019s children. We have to <\/span>be covered in what the Lord Jesus has done for us before we can be accepted by Him\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

Robin had just seen this happening with Treasure so he knew exactly what his father was talking about.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I guess so\u201d, he said slowly, \u201cThat means that until Treasure was covered with the dead lamb\u2019s skin, <\/span>it would have had no mother sheep to look after it\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s right\u201d, said his father, \u201cAnd each of us has to take the gift , the \u201ccovering\u201d that God has given us <\/span>for ourselves before we can become one of His little lambs too\u201d.<\/span>\u00a0
\u201cOh, now I understand\u201d, said Robin, \u201cI do<\/b> want to become one of God\u2019s lambs!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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