Mark 2:25-26 And he said to them, Have you never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungered, he, and they that were with him?… As I sat, last year, under a wide-spreading beech, I was pleased to mark with prying curiosity the singular habits of that most wonderful of trees, which seems to have an intelligence about it which other trees have not. I wondered at, and admired the beech, but I thought to myself, I do not think half as much of this beech tree as yonder squirrel does. I see him leap from bough to bough, and I feel sure he dearly values the old beech tree, because he has his home somewhere inside it, in a hollow place; these branches are his shelter, and these beech nuts are his food. He lives upon the tree. It is his world, his playground, his granary, his home; indeed it is everything to him, and it is not so to me, for I find my rest and food elsewhere. With God's Word it is well for us to be like squirrels, living in it, and living on it. (C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him? |
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