WE can all understand the meaning of the picture. The little girl has been left alone, and thinking no one saw her, has made up her mind to help herself to the sweet, ripe grapes which hang so temptingly over the edge of the vase. She looks as if she is saying to the parrot,
“Do you see me, Polly?”
Yes, the bird sees her, and there is Another who sees her too! God’s eye is upon us always, and He sees all our actions, hears all our words, and knows all our thoughts.
Perhaps someone had taught the parrot to say the words, “I see you,” and now they bring to the little girl’s mind the sin she is about to commit.
I hope she stopped in time and clambered down from the chair, leaving the grapes untouched, and thus was saved from being a thief; what a good thing it was that the parrot should remind the little girl of the naughty thing she was going to do in time to prevent it.
I was once walking along the street of a busy town and saw painted on a large board the picture of an eye, with rays of light darting from it in all directions. Beneath it were the words
“I never sleep.”
It was an advertisement for a newspaper, and was intended to lead the passerby to suppose that no event could happen in the world which would not be known by the editor of the paper. This was, of course, nothing but an idle boast, and very wrong for any man to pretend, but it is quite true of the all-seeing God. “THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE IN EVERY PLACE, BEHOLDING THE EVIL AND THE GOOD.” Prov. 15:33The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. (Proverbs 15:3)
Is it not a good thing to be under the care of One who never slumbers? May we all know what it is to be thus kept by God.
Remember this, dear children, God sees and hears us always, and loves to bless us through Jesus Christ His beloved Son according to the love which is ever in His heart.
ML 05/22/1927