WHEN Lafayette was imprisoned, those who imprisoned him were so much afraid that he would escape, that they cut a small hole in his prison door, and watched him night and day. He says whenever he looked at the hole he saw an eye watching him. It made him feel dreadfully. Children, how would you feel to have an eye follow you from room to room, from place to place, meeting its searching gaze whichever way you turned? Though you may not know or think of it, there is an eye upon you every moment of your life; not a human eye, but the eye of the all-seeing, holy God. Sometimes the thought of this makes me feel very sad; as I sit in my class it distresses me to see those bad boys whispering and laughing, while some are reading the Bible. Those boys watch the teachers, and are afraid that they will see them; they don’t care that God’s observing eye is on them; they do not recollect that a day will come when God will call them to account for treating His Word with contempt. He will then say, “I called you in the school, and you paid no regard to my words.”
I felt very sad the other day at hearing that one of the boys in our school took money from his father. He escaped his father’s eye, but God’s searching eye saw him, and if such persons will turn to 1 Corinthians 6:1010Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:10) and 2 Thessalonians 1:8,8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: (2 Thessalonians 1:8) they will see that something very dreadful will come upon them if they obey not the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Many years ago I knew a little girl, she was a merry little thing; but sickness came and laid its heavy hand upon her. She was a bright, intelligent little creature, and very fond of reading. One day, she took up one of the little books lying on her bed; an eye was pictured upon it, and under the picture were the words, “The All-seeing Eye.” She looked at it sometime; and said, “Aunty, what does it mean?”
“It is meant to explain that God knows everything you do; He is always seeing you, and knows your every thought.”
She did not speak for some time; and then, with much feeling, she said, “Aunty, I don’t want to think about it,” that is, she did not like the thought that “the eyes of the Lord are in every place.” Do you like to remember that God is ever seeing you? If you love the Lord Jesus Christ, and desire to walk in His footsteps, you will delight in the thought that the Lord is ever near you, and you will say, “Search me, and try me, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”