'Voices From The Past' Vol. 1 — March 26

I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears.—Isaiah 38:5

God reflects upon the least good that is in or done by weak saints, with an eye of love. Is this not a glorious comfort and support? You cannot have a good thought, but God looks upon that thought with an eye of love. We look upon tears as poor things, and yet God looks upon them as pearls. There is not a bit of bread or a drop of drink you might give, but God casts an eye of love upon it (Matt. 25:35-36). The Lord takes notice of every desire in your soul: 'Lord, pardon such a sin; and give me power against it; strengthen me, Lord, to withstand such a temptation; and give grace, Lord, to uphold me under such an affiction.' The Lord hears and answers such gracious breathings and longings. It was Latimer's desire that he might shed his heart's blood for Christ; and God looked with an eye of love upon the breathings of his heart, and he had it. The Israelites did but groan, and God looked upon their groans with an eye of love; he came down and made his arm bare; he trampled on their proud enemies, and by miracles he saved them. O weak Christian! Is not this a singular comfort; that the Lord reflects with an eye of love upon your thoughts, upon your desires, upon your tears, and upon your groans? What if others slight you? What if others take no notice of you? The Lord casts an eye of love upon you. Some think it very strange that God should set down in Scripture the story of Jacob, a poor countryman (Gen. 31), that he had a few ewes and lambs, streaked and spotted, and yet he took no notice of the great emperors and kings of the earth and their great actions and warlike designs in the world. This shows however the tender love and respect that God bears to his children above the great ones of the world. God is more taken with Lazarus’ patched coat than with Dives' silken robe.
Devotional Readings taken from Puritan Devotional Readings 'Voices From The Past Vol.1.'
Thomas Brooks, Works, III:61-62
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