Believer, Let JESUS Sustain Your Cares.

Every groan of your wounded heart!
(Thomas Guthrie, 1803-1873)

If JESUS was only a man--
then how could HE guard the interests, 
and manage all the affairs of all HIS 
redeemed people scattered far and 
wide over the face of the habitable globe? 


What heart were large enough 
to embrace them all?
What eyes could see them all?
What ears could hear them all? 

Think of the ten thousand prayers 
pronounced in a hundred different 
tongues that go up at once, and all 
together, to HIS ear! 

Yet there is no confusion; none are lost; 
none are missed in the crowd. Nor are 
they heard by HIM as, standing 
on yonder lofty crag, we hear 
the din of the city that lies 
stretched out far beneath us, 
with all its separate sounds of cries, 
and rumbling wheels, and human voices, 
mixed up into one deep, confused, hollow roar--
like the boom of the sea's distant breakers. 

No! Every believer may feel as if 
he were alone with JESUS--
enjoying a private audience 
of the KING in HIS presence-
chamber! 

Be of good cheer. Every groan 
of your wounded heart, your 
every sigh, and cry, and prayer--
falls as distinctly on JESUS' ear as 
if you stood beside HIS throne; or, 
nearer still, lay with John on HIS 
bosom, and felt the beating of HIS 
heart against your own.

How full of encouragement and 
comfort is this to those, like us, 
who have sins to confess, sorrows 
to tell HIM, and many a heavy care 
to cast upon HIS sympathy and kindness. 

Believer, let HIM sustain your cares. 
Your case cannot be too difficult, nor 
can your burden be too heavy for 
the ONE who guides the rolling 
planets on their course, and bears 
on HIS unwearied arm the weight 
of the universe.

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