A teacher was one afternoon repeating to her class the well-known text, “Thou God seest me,” when a little boy immediately said: “Yes, teacher, but God can see all of us.”
“Surely He can, Albert, yet our text says, ‘Thou God seest me,’ and we often sing this verse, which tells us the same;
“God is in heaven, can He see
If I am doing wrong?
Oh! yes, He can, He looks at thee
All day and all night long.”
“I know that, teacher, but He looks at all of us.”
Again and again the little boy repeated his words, until the teacher thought he must have some reason for persisting that God can see all, so she asked him why he would not use the word “me.” After a moment’s hesitation, and in a low voice, Albert replied,
“Because, teacher, if God looked straight at me, He would see too much.”
Ah! that was the trouble. Though a gentle, lovable little boy, one of the best in the class, Albert felt that he could not bear the all-searching eye of God fixed straight on him.
He knew that he was a sinful child, unfit for God’s presence; alas, he did not trust Jesus as his Saviour, the One who could wash all his sins away.
Are you afraid of that little word “me”? Does it trouble you to know that God searches your heart through and through? Can you say, “The Son of God loved me and gave Himself for me”?
ML 03/12/1961