CHARLES was a little boy whose father used to steal. One day he took his little son with him intending to steal corn out of another man’s corn crib. When they came to the field where the corn was, he said to his boy, “You watch and tell me when you see any one looking, while I go in and fill my bag with the corn.”
Now little Charles had gone to Sunday school and had learned many things from the Word of God. Therefore he had a tender conscience about doing something wrong. So after his father had gone into the field and was stealing the corn, he called out, “Daddy, Somebody is looking!”
His father dropped the bag and ran. When he came to the spot where his little boy was, he looked around but could see no one. “Son,” he said reproachfully, “You mustn’t call me when nobody is looking.”
“But, Daddy,” exclaimed his little son, “God is looking!”
Brave, faithful little fellow! He could not go on with a bad conscience. He had obeyed his father, but he had obeyed the Lord too, and he taught his father a lesson that day which we believe he did not forget.
Perhaps some of you dear boys and girls who read this little paper have at some time or other looked at a portrait hanging on a wall, and you have noticed how those eyes looked straight into your own. Everywhere you went in that room, those eyes followed you. So it is with the eyes of God. It says in Proverbs 15:33The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. (Proverbs 15:3): “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.”
ML-05/24/1970