"Be Careful"

There’s a song that many of us learned when we were very young entitled, “Be Careful.” In fact most of us are now teaching this song to our little boys and girls. The song goes like this:

Oh be careful little eyes what you see,
Oh be careful little eyes what you see,
For the Father up above is looking down in love,
So be careful little eyes what you see.
Then you repeat it each time using:
Ear what you hear,
Mouth what you say,
Hands what you do,
Feet where you walk.

We learned this song early in life and are teaching it early in life to our little boys and girls to help them understand the importance of thinking before we act. These words should stay with us all through life and we should have learned the simple truth of what this teaches us. Are we really careful concerning those things we watch? Are we careful concerning those things we hear? Do we really think before we speak? Do we ensure that we are only going places that are appropriate for us? We must be careful concerning all these things because God is paying attention to everything that we see, hear, say, and do. We will be judged in the final day by the words of Jesus (John 12:48). Have we taken the words to the most simplest of songs and applied this principle to our day to day life as Christians? God knows – and that is what really matters!