The Father Knows Your Every Need

Believer, are you poor in spirit? Are you poor and needy? Brokenhearted? Your Father knows, and He has already prepared His grace to sustain and comfort you. Come to the King of the Universe who brought Himself low, whose heart is “gentle and lowly” (Matthew 11:29). Come to the King who welcomes sinners, the sick, the lowly, the downtrodden, the broken:

28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matthew 11:28-30)

Believer, are you anxious and worried? Are your thoughts chained to the past? Fretting over the present? Obsessed with the future? Your heavenly Father already knows your needs (Matthew 6:7-8), and He provides abundantly.

7 And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. (Matthew 6:7-8)

Put your past in the hands of the Bridegroom who knows all your shortcomings and yet is faithful to you. Put your future in the hands of the God who foreknows every step you have yet to take. Put your circumstances into the hands of the God who, in spite of the worst possible situation, will work it for good:

28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. (Romans 8:28-30)

Believer, do you feel stained by your sin? “Do you feel that you never were so consciously vile as you are now?” (Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Dec. 8th entry) God knows your every sin, more than you ever will. He knows every dark thought you’ve had, and everything you’ve done in the dark, and He loves you. If you don’t believe it, look to the cross, the evidence of His great love for you.

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:31-39)

Whatever makes your heart heavy, come to the throne of grace with confidence, knowing that the Father knows exactly what you need (Hebrews 4:14-16). Charles Spurgeon excellently speaks of Jesus’ sufficiency:

Reader, is your heart heavy this evening? God knew it would be; the comfort which your heart wants is treasured in the sweet assurance of the text. You are poor and needy, but he has thought upon you, and has the exact blessing which you require in store for you. Plead the promise, believe it and obtain its fulfilment. Do you feel that you never were so consciously vile as you are now? Behold, the crimson fountain is open still, with all its former efficacy, to wash your sin away. Never shall you come into such a position that Christ cannot aid you. No pinch shall ever arrive in your spiritual affairs in which Jesus Christ shall not be equal to the emergency, for your history has all been foreknown and provided for in Jesus. (Spurgeon, "Morning and Evening")