God Knows us Through and Through

January 11.

I will be glad, and rejoice in Thy mercy:
for Thou hast considered my trouble;
Thou hast known my soul in adversities.

PSALM 31, verse 7.


Nay, all by Thee is ordered, chosen, planned;
Each drop that fills my daily cup Thy hand
Prescribes, for ills none else can understand:
All, all is known to Thee.

A. L. NEWTON.


God knows us through and through.
Not the most secret thought, which we
most hide from ourselves, is hidden from
Him. As then we come to know ourselves
through and through, we come to see
ourselves more as God sees us, and then
we catch some little glimpse of His designs
with us, how each ordering of His Providence,
each check to our desires, each failure of our
hopes, is just fitted for us, and for something
in our own spiritual state, which others know
not of, and which, till then, we knew not.
Until we come to this knowledge, we must
take all in faith, believing, though we know
not, the goodness of God towards us. As we
know ourselves, we, thus far, know God.

E. B. PUSEY.