I WANT to tell you about a dear little boy whom I met this last summer while visiting at his parents’ home. In many respects, he was just like other boys, and needed to be corrected, but on the whole, he was very obedient to his parents, and enjoyed very much going with his father to the mountains, and fishing in the streams. I do not know whether he caught many fish or not, but one day his father took a photo of him while standing on a boulder, and we have it in the paper this week.
There was one thing which he said while we were sitting at the dinner table together; it was this,
“Whenever a thought comes into my mind to do something wrong, I just think, The Lord sees me, and then I don’t do it.”
I trust this dear little boy may always remember that the Lord ever sees him, and that he may be preserved from wrong things, and their terrible results, for every disobedience must receive its punishment. May my readers always think of that word,
“Thou God seest me.”
What a sad thing it is to go on without the fear of God. In Romans 3, we get the description of all in their natural state, and in the 18th, verse it reads.
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
If we know how hateful sin is to God who is holy, and remember how He turned His holy eye away from the Lord Jesus when He hung upon the cross as the sin-bearer, we then shall fear Him, and the Scripture says,
ML 12/03/1922