January 8

From: Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations By: Henry Allan Ironside

Exodus 3:7

“I have surely seen the affliction of My people... and have heard their cry... for I know their sorrows”—Exod. 3:7⁷And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; (Exodus 3:7).

GOD is no indifferent spectator of human suffering. He feels for His people in all the sorrows and trials they are called upon to endure. It is written, “In all their affliction He was afflicted and the angel of His presence saved them.” His great Father-heart enters into all the griefs and wretchedness that we have to go through, and His ear is ever open to our cry. We wrong our own souls when we fail to turn to Him in our distress and restrain prayer before Him.

“All thy griefs by Him are ordered,

Needful is each one for thee;

All thy tears by Him are counted.

One too much there cannot be;

And if whilst they fall so quickly

Thou canst own His way is right,

Then each bitter tear of anguish

Precious is in Jesus’ sight.

“Far too well thy Saviour loves thee,

To allow thy life to be

One long, calm, unbroken summer—

One unruffled, stormless sea;