[Songs in the Night - January 21]
The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers. 1 Peter 3:12
OUR Heavenly Father is deeply interested in
everything that relates to us and ours.
What thing is
too small for his notice who numbers even the very
hairs of our heads?...Fallen creatures though we
be, from the noble estate in which we were created,
God so loved our race, even while we were yet sinners,
as to make provision at great cost for our redemption
and restitution and subsequent eternal glory.
And
therefore it is—because he loves us—that through
Christ he extends to us the gracious favor of coming
to him as children to a father....We need have no
fear that he is too busy with other matters of greater
importance, or that he is weary of our coming to him
repeatedly with things of small importance....It is
our privilege to enter into our closets and shut the
doors and pray to our Father which seeth in secret,
who will reward us openly. Z'95-213 R1865:5; 1864:3; 1865:4 (Hymn 293)