All religious people believe that the Creator is concerned about man, but the nearness of his concern may be overlooked. Because of the weakness of man’s mind, because of his inability to discern and remember many individual things, man uses abstract ideas to help him. Man speaks of nature, society, humanity. The divine mind does not require such ideas. All things are known to God; therefore, not just mankind but each individual human being is God’s object of concern. “The very hairs of your head are all numbered.” (Matthew 10:30.) Deep in every human heart is the desire to be known and loved just for oneself. But only One can have such love and knowledge. Men group themselves into classes, races, and nations, but the Father calls them as he called their first parents in the Garden, one by one.
The Lord’s Question: Thoughts on the Life of Response by Dennis Rasmussen. Brigham Young University Press. April 1985. Chapter One, “Where Art Thou?” p.9
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