JOE WAS a poor little retarded fellow who didn’t have the things in life that many boys and girls have. However, a kind evangelist sought to teach him a little about God and how His dear Son, Christ Jesus, came to die for sinners. Joe couldn’t understand very much but at last he came to believe on Jesus and love Him too. He got to know that when he left this world the Lord Jesus would take him up beyond the blue sky, where no little boys and girls would make fun of him because of his funny words and ways, where he would be happy with Jesus forever.
Joe also learned that God is everywhere and can see us at all times. He liked to come to Sunday school with the other children. He could not learn the lessons or read out of the Bible, but he liked to listen to them sing hymns.
One Sunday afternoon the Sunday school teacher was surprised to see Joe with his fingers made in the shape of eye-glasses, staring through them very hard all over the room and up at the ceiling.
“Joe, what are you looking for?” he asked kindly.
“I doesn’t see Him! I doesn’t see Him nowheres!” Joe muttered to himself.
“Whom are you looking for? his friend questioned.
“Him, as you said — God! I doesn’t see Him nowheres!”
Poor Joe was looking for God, who the Sunday school teacher said was everywhere. It was hard for him to understand that he couldn’t see God, but God could see him.
Now, dear young friends, one day all shall see God revealed in the Lord Jesus Christ—we shall see Him as our Saviour and Friend, or as Judge. If I wish to see Him as Saviour and Friend, then I must see Him hanging on the cross for my sins, and believe that He died for me. Those who refuse Him as Saviour now will stand before the great white throne to be judged and bear the penalty of their sins forever.
Little Joe was not very wise or big, but he knew enough to trust Jesus, and now Joe is in heaven, enjoying the presence of that blessed Saviour who loved and died for sinners everywhere.
ML-04/19/1970