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He Knows Best
When I was a child, I often asked for things from my parents that I never got. Often when I asked, the answer went something like this: “Mother knows best.” Or, “Father knows what is good for you.” Looking back, I realize that sometimes they said it to disguise their inability to grant the request, and sometimes it was with real wisdom, knowing that what I wanted was not good for me.
However, with our all-knowing Lord, a denial is not because of any inability, but because “the Lord knows best.” The writer of Psalm 84 reminds us, “For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly” (verse 11).
He sees what we need, He knows what is best,
So let Him decide, in His wisdom rest!
Our God is omniscient, this truth we can see,
We cannot presume to be wiser than He!
This is why it is good when we pray for something, to pray with the attitude of the Lord Jesus as the dependent man, “Nevertheless not My will, but Thine, be done” (Luke 22:42).
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