FIDO brings the book to his loving little mistress with great delight, as he thinks he has accomplished a great feat, and likes to return kindness for all her kind and tender treatment of him. Not only so, but as she sits on the garden bench and reads her book, he keeps watch, and if anyone would attempt to do her any harm, he would protect her to the best of his ability.
This faithfulness might well cause us to think of the loving, tender, watchful care of our God which far exceeds what we have been considering. He knows all about us and nothing is hidden from Him. The Psalmist could say: “O Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandeth my thought afar off.
“Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.” Psa. 139:33Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. (Psalm 139:3). Do you think of that care? Ah, He is faithful, no matter how forgetful you may have been. He has ever been watching, supplying the needs, and keeping you from the many dangers in this life.
But that is not the greatest expression of His watchfulness, care and love. That only can be seen at the cross, where God gave His only Son to die for us poor, forgetful sinners. He was His only Son—the Son of His love, His delight, and O, think of it, He gave Him to die for us! Who could measure love like that! Ah, the moment we lay hold of that, we can truly trust Him, and count on Him to be watching our downsitting and our uprising and knowing all about us, so that we will not only trust Him, we will seek that our downsitting and uprising will be pleasing to Him. We will not be found sitting in the seat of the scornful, either, for we know that would not be pleasing to Him, and seeing that He has loved us so much, and watches over and cares for us, it surely calls for us to seek to please Him.
ML 01/09/1927