"Your Father Knoweth"

It is often easy for me to think that God doesn’t really care how my life is going. He probably doesn’t care when I’m overwhelmed with school, when I’m upset that my dating life isn’t going as well as I’d like, or when I feel stressed because I have no idea what I want to do with my life. It is hard for me to feel like Heavenly Father could possibly care about such small matters. But 3 Nephi 13 gives me a better perspective. In verse eight it says, “For your Father knoweth what things ye have need of.” To me this shows that God knows and cares about me, even if it’s sometimes hard to see.  He knows when I’m excited, when I’m sick, when I’m lonely, and when I’m afraid. And it is especially amazing to me to know that God knows and cares when I am sad. Christ feels my pain. In the last General Relief Society Meeting, Sister Linda S. Reeves said, “Our Heavenly Father and our Savior, Jesus Christ, know us and love us. They know when we are in pain or suffering in any way. They do not say, “It’s OK that you’re in pain right now because soon everything is going to be all right…They feel the depth of our suffering.” He doesn’t expect me to be fine because in that moment things aren’t fine. Jesus lets me weep and He weeps with me, and then he helps me to be okay. This shows to me that the Savior really does know “what things [I] have need of,” because it shows He understands me. He truly “remembereth every creature of his creating” (Mosiah 27:30).