SEE how carefully this little girl is watching baby sister; the tiny one needs to be guarded lest she tip out of her crib. How many pretty things this little girl has around her for toys: I imagine they were her Birthday-gifts. We know what her name is, for we can see it on her work box. With a doll, ball, tiny houses and little animals to play with, isn’t it a wonder that she is so faithful to baby? Fanny’s mother is probably busy in the kitchen and has left baby to her care. How happy the child is that is faithful in whatever task mother, father, teacher or employer gives him to do.
There is someone guarding over you, dear child, even more faithful than Fanny is guarding over the baby. It is Jesus. He is watching you and if you are His child, He will keep you from stumbling, and doing many very sinful things: Your parents are your earthly guardians, but Jesus is the. heavenly guardian over all His own saved men and women, boys and girls and tiny folks.
You will never get too big to need His care and protection. Isn’t it good that He loves to watch over you, and is even more tender toward you than your own dear parents? We will never realize how much Jesus loves us until we are taken to be with Him—then we will have a whole eternity to praise Him for taking such good care of us each day while we were on earth. How little we deserve this care: we are by nature so wilful and sinful!
Many verses in the twelfth chapter of Luke show God’s watchfulness over His children. He tells us in verse seven of that chapter that He has even the hairs of our head all numbered. So, dear children, do not let us be careless of Him; it is so wrong to do just as, we please. “YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN, FOR YE ARE SOUGHT WITH A PRICE.” 1 Cor. 6:19, 2019What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. (1 Corinthians 6:19‑20).
ML 07/14/1912