“I know their sorrows.” — Exodus 3:7

The child is cheered as he sings, “This my father knows”; and shall not webe comforted as we discern that our dear Friend and tender soul-husbandknows 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, butrely upon His unfailing skill to make all plain in the result, howevermysterious in the working.

1. 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 Lorddoeth.” Shall the architect explain his plans to every hodman on theworks? If he knows his own intent, is it not enough? The vessel on thewheel cannot guess to what pattern it shall be conformed, but if the potterunderstands his art, what matters the ignorance of the clay? My Lord mustnot be cross-questioned any more by one so ignorant as I am.

2. He is the Head. All understanding centres there. What judgment has thearm? What comprehension has the foot? All the power to know lies in thehead. Why should the member have a brain of its own when the headfulfils for it every intellectual office? Here, then, must the believer rest hiscomfort in sickness, not that he himself can see the end, but that Jesusknows all. Sweet Lord, be thou for ever eye, and soul, and head for us, andlet us be content to know only what Thou choosest to reveal.

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Producer: Todd Adkins
Voice Artist: Ian Cullen