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经文: 我知道他们的痛苦。（出埃及记三：7）
当孩子歌唱：“我的父亲知道。”，他的心是喜乐的。当我们相信是亲爱的朋友和心灵的温柔良人知道我们的一切时，我们的心灵何等得安慰啊。祂是大医生。祂若知道一切，病人就无需知道自己的病况。肃静吧，焦虑烦躁的心，不要总是猜测怀疑!你现在不知道的事，将来必明白。爱你的大医生耶稣，知道你的心灵正处于逆境中。病人为什么要自己分析药物，考虑所有征状呢？这是医生的工作，不是我的工作。我要作的是信赖，他要作的是诊断。他若在处方单上写了我不能辨认的字，我也不会因此感到不自在。反之，我将信赖他永不失败的技术，不论他的工作过程是多么神秘，我要相信结果必会令我满意。而祂是主人。我们只要顺从，不作论断。“仆人不知道主人所作的事。”（约十五：15）建筑师需要在工地上向每个建筑工人解释他的设计图？他若知道自己的意图，这不就够了吗？在陶匠转轮上的泥土不必猜测自己将变成什么形状的器皿。只要陶匠了解他的技巧，泥土的无知有何相干？我的主不该再受像我这般无知的人之质询。而祂是元首。所有的理念全集中在祂那里。手臂能作何判断？脚又能领悟什么？头能完成每一智慧之工，何需其它肢体各自拥有头脑呢？亲爱的主啊，求祢作我们的眼睛，我们的灵魂，并我们的头。让我们满足于只明白祢决定要向我们启示的事。
Evening, August 14
Scripture: “I know their sorrows.”(Exodus 3:7)
The child is cheered as he sings, “This my father knows”; and shall not we be comforted as we discern that our dear Friend and tender soul-husband knows all about us?
1. He is the Physician, and if he knows all, there is no need that the patient should know. Hush, thou silly, fluttering heart, prying, peeping, and suspecting! What thou knowest not now, thou shalt know hereafter, and meanwhile Jesus, the beloved Physician, knows thy soul in adversities. Why need the patient analyze all the medicine, or estimate all the symptoms? This is the Physician’s work, not mine; it is my business to trust, and his to prescribe. If he shall write his prescription in uncouth characters which I cannot read, I will not be uneasy on that account, but rely upon his unfailing skill to make all plain in the result, however mysterious in the working.
2. He is the Master, and his knowledge is to serve us instead of our own; we are to obey, not to judge: “The servant knoweth not what his lord doeth.” Shall the architect explain his plans to every hodman on the works? If he knows his own intent, is it not enough? The vessel on the wheel cannot guess to what pattern it shall be conformed, but if the potter understands his art, what matters the ignorance of the clay? My Lord must not be cross-questioned any more by one so ignorant as I am.
3. He is the Head. All understanding centres there. What judgment has the arm? What comprehension has the foot? All the power to know lies in the head. Why should the member have a brain of its own when the head fulfils for it every intellectual office? Here, then, must the believer rest his comfort in sickness, not that he himself can see the end, but that Jesus knows all. Sweet Lord, be thou for ever eye, and soul, and head for us, and let us be content to know only what thou choosest to reveal.