Joe liked to come to Sunday school with the other children. He could not learn lessons or read, for he was a poor idiot boy, but he did love to hear the children sing hymns. The kind teacher tried to teach him something about God, and how He sent His dear Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die on the cross and shed His precious blood to wash our sins away.
Poor Joe couldn’t understand very much but he did put his trust in the Lord Jesus and loved Him dearly. Joe learned that when he died, Jesus would take him up beyond the blue sky, where no little boys or girls would ever make fun of him for his foolish words and ways, and there he would be happy forever.
One day the teacher was surprised to see poor little Joe with his fingers made into the shape of glasses, staring through them very hard all over the room and up at the ceiling.
“Joe, my boy! What are you looking for?” he asked kindly.
“I doesn’t see Him! I doesn’t see Him nowhere!” Joe murmured to himself.
“Whom are you looking for, Joe?” “Him as you said — God! I doesn’t see Him nowhere!”
The poor boy was looking for God, who the teacher had told him was everywhere. It was very hard for him to understand that he couldn’t see God, but God could see him. “Thou God seest me,” Genesis 16:1313And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? (Genesis 16:13), is a text small children often learn, and the following chorus is often a favorite,
“For He sees what we do,
And He hears what we say
My God is watching
All the time, time, time!”
So it is not surprising that Joe, as well as many small boys and girls, have tried very hard to see God too!
If we wish to “see His face with joy” someday, we must see Jesus as our Saviour now. Our faith must see the Lord Jesus hanging on the cross for our sins and rising again for our justification, and we must take Him as our own precious Saviour. It is not only wise or grown-up people who can be saved. Poor Joe was not very wise nor very big, but he knew enough to trust in the Lord Jesus, and He saved him. Joe is seeing his blessed Saviour now in heaven; and you shall see and praise Him too, if you will trust Jesus as your Saviour as he did. Oh, why not trust Him now! “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” 2 Corinthians 6:22(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) (2 Corinthians 6:2).
ML 05/03/1953