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Morning and Evening

September 28, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"The Lord looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men." — Psalm 33:13 · KJV

Perhaps no figure of speech shows God in a more gracious light than when He is spoken of as stooping from His throne and coming down from heaven to attend to the wants and behold the woes of mankind. We love Him who, when Sodom and Gomorrah were full of iniquity, would not destroy those cities until He had made a personal visit to them. We cannot help pouring out our heart in affection for our Lord, who bends His ear from the highest glory and puts it to the lips of the dying sinner whose failing heart longs for reconciliation. How can we but love Him, when we know that He numbers the very hairs of our head, marks our path, and orders our ways? This great truth is brought especially near to our heart when we remember how attentive He is, not merely to the temporal interests of His creatures, but to their spiritual concerns. Though leagues of distance lie between the finite creature and the infinite Creator, yet there are links uniting the two. When you weep a tear, do not think God does not see, for "like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him." Your sigh can move the heart of Yahweh; your whisper can incline His ear to you; your prayer can stay His hand; your faith can move His arm. Do not think that God sits on high taking no account of you. Remember that, however poor and needy you are, the Lord thinks upon you; "for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him." Oh, then repeat the truth that never tires: there is no God like the God my soul desires — He at whose voice heaven trembles, great as He is, knows how to stoop to me.