“The LORD looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man.” Psalm 33:13
Perhaps no figure of speech represents God in a more gracious light than when he is spoken of as stooping from his throne, and coming down from heaven to attend to the wants and to behold the woes of mankind.
We love him, who, when Sodom and Gomorrah were full of iniquity, would not destroy those cities until he had made a personal visitation of them. We cannot help pouring out our heart in affection for our Lord who inclines his ear from the highest glory, and puts it to the lip of the dying sinner, whose failing heart longs after reconciliation. How can we but love him when we know that he numbers the very hairs of our heads, marks our path, and orders our ways? Specially is this great truth brought near to our heart, when we recollect how attentive he is, not merely to the temporal interests of his creatures, but to their spiritual concerns.
Though leagues of distance lie between the finite creature and the infinite Creator, yet there are links uniting both. When a tear is wept by you, do not think that God does not behold; for, “As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him.”
Your sigh is able to move the heart of Jehovah.
Your whisper can incline his ear unto you.
Your prayer can stay his hand.
Your faith can move his arm.
Do not think that God sits on high taking no account of you. Remember that however poor and needy you are, the Lord thinks about you. For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
Oh! then repeat the truth that never tires
No God is like the God my soul desires
He at whose voice heaven trembles, even he,
Great as he is, knows how to stoop to me.
Adapted from Morning and Evening.
