A LITTLE girl, the favorite of her parents and her aunt, became sick and for a long time could not leave her bed. She was an extremely active child, with a very inquiring mind for her years.
The aunt tried to while away the tedious hours by reading to her. One day the little one took in her hand one of the books which her aunt had laid on her bed. On its title page was an eye painted, and underneath were the words, “The Allseeing Eye.”
She looked at the book for a time, and then asked:
“Auntie, what does that mean’?”
“That means that God’s eye sees everything, and He, therefore, knows everything, even our inmost thoughts. You are not alone and His eye sees you all the time.”
For a considerable time the little one kept very quiet. She was evidently reflecting on what she had heard. Suddenly she said, “Please, Auntie, lay the book away. I don’t want to think more about it. I don’t like to think God’s eye is watching me, and that He even knows all that goes on in my heart.”
The aunt complied with the request of the child, and tried to make her happy again. But all in van. She would not be left alone for a moment. Sometimes she would cry in anxious tones: “O, the Allseeing Lye!”
She remained in this condition for some days; but finally the anxiety disappeared and a happy smile returned to the little pale face. And how was that? She had confessed to the allseeing God everything that was in her little sinful heart, and then thought of the loving Saviour of whom she had heard so much in the Sunday school, and who had given His life for little sinful children such as she was. Therefore she was now quite happy; she knew that her sins were pardoned and that she had nothing more to fear.
My dear young friends, what does the allseeing eye of God daily and hourly see in your hearts?
“God is in heaven: can He see
If I am doing wrong?”
O, yes, He can; He looks at thee
All day and all night long.
“Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.”
“Yea, the darkness hideth not from Thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee.” Psa. 139:3, 12.
ML-08/04/1935