Exodus 3:7

The child is cheered as he sings, “This my father knows;” and should we not be comforted as we perceive 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 for the patient to know. Hush, you silly, fluttering heart, prying, peeping, and suspecting! What you do not know now, you will know hereafter; and meanwhile Jesus, the beloved Physician, knows your soul in adversities. Why should 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 writes his prescription in strange characters that I cannot read, I will not be uneasy on that account, but will rely upon his unfailing skill to make everything clear 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.” Should the architect explain his plans to every laborer on the works? If he knows his own intent, is it not enough? The vessel on the wheel cannot guess to what pattern it will be conformed, but if the potter understands his art, what does the ignorance of the clay matter? 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, the believer must rest his comfort in sickness, not that he himself can see the end, but that Jesus knows all. Sweet Lord, be You forever eye, and soul, and head for us, and let us be content to know only what You choose to reveal.