Child’s Cry heard by God – Charles Spurgeon

IT is very seldom Christ Jesus keeps poor sinners waiting long. Sometimes he does. He answers them not a word; but then it is to try their faith. Though he keeps them waiting, he will not send them away wanting; he will be sure to give them mercies, sooner or later. “Though the promise tarry, wait for it,” and you shall find it yet, to your soul’s salvation. Child of God! has not your Father come to you yet? Cry for him! cry for him! Your Father will come. Nothing fetches the parent to the child like the child’s cry. Cry, little one, cry! You who have but little faith. “Ah! but,” you say, “I am too weak to cry.” Did you never notice that the little one sometimes cries so very low, that when you are sitting in the parlor with the mother, you do not hear it? Up she gets; there is the dear child crying upstairs; and off she goes. She can hear it, though you cannot; because it is her child that cries. Cry, little one; let your prayer go up to Heaven. Though your minister does not hear it; though unbelief says no one can hear it, there is a God in Heaven who knows the cry of the penitent, who “heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.”