“YOUR Father knoweth that ye have need of these things,” says the Lord to us. Now, the fact of our Father’s knowledge of our needs should satisfy us as to them, in the same way that the knowledge by a little child of its mother’s eye being upon it rests its heart. The child is quieted because it is aware that its mother knows its need. Now, are not our prayers at times rather giving our Father information upon matters than the outcome of our trust in His knowledge of our needs, and of His love to us? A fretful state of mind betrays a lack of confidence in our Father’s love and care towards us. “Your Father knoweth that ye have need” —what rest for the soul is there in this assurance! Let us quiet our souls as does the little child who rests in its mother’s knowledge of its need.