It is of the living God as such, in His character of preserver of men, that Job speaks (ch. 7:20). His providential care and government are before us wherein nothing escapes His notice. So He clothes the herbage of the field and nourishes the birds of heaven which sow not nor reap nor gather into granaries. So He makes His sun rise on evil and good and sends rain on just and unjust. How much more prized are not His own than many sparrows, even the hairs of their heads being all numbered!
No Christian could forget for a moment the infinite privilege of eternal life and redemption, of heavenly hope and everlasting glory, but, in the presence of these unseen and eternal things, he might, to his own great loss as well as the Lord's dishonor, overlook the constant daily and special care of God in the ordinary matters of this life. [16]