Spurgeon: August PM
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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.