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August 14th Evening
“I know their sorrows.” — Exodus 3:7
The child is cheered as he sings, “This my father knows”; and shall not we
be comforted as we discern that our dear Friend and tender soul-husband
knows all about us?
1. He is the Physician, and if He knows all, there is no need that the patient should know. Hush, thou silly, fluttering heart, prying, peeping, and suspecting! What thou knowest not now, thou shalt know hereafter, and meanwhile Jesus, the beloved Physician, knows thy soul in adversities. Why need the patient analyze all the medicine, or estimate all the symptoms? This is the Physician’s work, not mine; it is my business to trust, and His to prescribe. If He shall write His prescription in uncouth characters which I cannot read, I will not be…
uneasy on that account, but
rely upon His unfailing skill to make all plain in the result, however
mysterious in the working.
2. He is the Master, and His knowledge is to serve us instead of our own;
we are to obey, not to judge: “The servant knoweth not what his Lord
doeth.” Shall the architect explain his plans to every hodman on the
works? If he knows his own intent, is it not enough? The vessel on the
wheel cannot guess to what pattern it shall be conformed, but if the potter
understands his art, what matters the ignorance of the clay? My Lord must
not be cross-questioned any more by one so ignorant as I am.
3. He is the Head. All understanding centres there. What judgment has the
arm? What comprehension has the foot? All the power to know lies in the
head. Why should the member have a brain of its own when the head
fulfils for it every intellectual office? Here, then, must the believer rest his
comfort in sickness, not that he himself can see the end, but that Jesus
knows all. Sweet Lord, be thou for ever eye, and soul, and head for us, and
let us be content to know only what Thou choosest to reveal.
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“I know their sorrows.” — Exodus 3:7
The child is cheered as he sings, “This my father knows”; and shall not we
be comforted as we discern that our dear Friend and tender soul-husband
knows all about us?
1. He is the Physician, and if He knows all, there is no need that the patient should know. Hush, thou silly, fluttering heart, prying, peeping, and suspecting! What thou knowest not now, thou shalt know hereafter, and meanwhile Jesus, the beloved Physician, knows thy soul in adversities. Why need the patient analyze all the medicine, or estimate all the symptoms? This is the Physician’s work, not mine; it is my business to trust, and His to prescribe. If He shall write His prescription in uncouth characters which I cannot read, I will not be…
uneasy on that account, but
rely upon His unfailing skill to make all plain in the result, however
mysterious in the working.
2. He is the Master, and His knowledge is to serve us instead of our own;
we are to obey, not to judge: “The servant knoweth not what his Lord
doeth.” Shall the architect explain his plans to every hodman on the
works? If he knows his own intent, is it not enough? The vessel on the
wheel cannot guess to what pattern it shall be conformed, but if the potter
understands his art, what matters the ignorance of the clay? My Lord must
not be cross-questioned any more by one so ignorant as I am.
3. He is the Head. All understanding centres there. What judgment has the
arm? What comprehension has the foot? All the power to know lies in the
head. Why should the member have a brain of its own when the head
fulfils for it every intellectual office? Here, then, must the believer rest his
comfort in sickness, not that he himself can see the end, but that Jesus
knows all. Sweet Lord, be thou for ever eye, and soul, and head for us, and
let us be content to know only what Thou choosest to reveal.
To make sure you never miss an episode, please subscribe today wherever you listen to podcasts.
Producer: Todd Adkins
Voice Artist: Ian Cullen
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