Better eat you peas, Jesus is watching.
Better sit up straight, Jesus is watching.
Better obey your mother, Jesus is watching.
Better not cry, Jesus is watching.
I said, “Sit up straight!” Jesus is watching.
Jesus is watching.
not as nosy accountant or uninvited voyouer,
not as a tongue clucker or finger wagger
Jesus is watching.
not as cop on duty or grey-haired busybody.
Jesus watches as:
Prodigal Father
Tender Shepherd
Unmerited Friend
Jesus does not peek through keyholes.
He follows us into
our darkened rooms …
our private hells …
our beds of our own making …
He watches us with magnetic eyes.
He watches and waits
He watches and waits … there is no time limit,
there is no “Eventually I will stop watching.”
He only watches with love.
He only watches with the hope
that we
will return His glance.