God Sees Us
In the American Civil War, one of the officers of the Southern armies was taken a prisoner, and kept for quite awhile in a Federal prison. In his memoirs he recounts his prison experiences.
He tells us that he was guarded day and night, and that he could not look up, neither to the right, nor to the left, night or day, but that eyes were watching his every movement.
He tells us that if he started in his dreams and was rudely awakened from his sleep, standing over him and watching him were eyes that never ceased to observe his every movement. He tells us that of all the experiences, torturing and terrible, through which he passed in that fearful, fratricidal war, that one experience of eyes watching him all the time was the most torturing experience of all.
Oh, my brethren, if the truth could only come home to us properly, this very hour, that God sees us and knows us altogether, and that for everything in our lives, whether public or secret, He will bring us into judgment at last, what a difference such fact would make in our conduct before Him!
—George W. Truett
He tells us that he was guarded day and night, and that he could not look up, neither to the right, nor to the left, night or day, but that eyes were watching his every movement.
He tells us that if he started in his dreams and was rudely awakened from his sleep, standing over him and watching him were eyes that never ceased to observe his every movement. He tells us that of all the experiences, torturing and terrible, through which he passed in that fearful, fratricidal war, that one experience of eyes watching him all the time was the most torturing experience of all.
Oh, my brethren, if the truth could only come home to us properly, this very hour, that God sees us and knows us altogether, and that for everything in our lives, whether public or secret, He will bring us into judgment at last, what a difference such fact would make in our conduct before Him!
—George W. Truett