Our Father knows what things we need.
Each step along the way
His eye of love doth never sleep;
He watches night and day.

He knows, sometimes, like ripening grain,
We need the sunshine bright.
Again He sends the peace that comes
With shadows of the night.

Sometimes our pride would fain unfurl
Ambition’s flaunting sail:
Ah! then He knows we need to walk
Humiliation’s vale.

Sometimes He takes our eager hands
And folds them on our breast;
He gently lays our work aside—
He knows we need to rest.

Sometimes we need companionship,
Sometimes "the wilderness."
How sweet to feel He’ll know and give
The state that most will bless!

Then let us leave it all with Him,
Assured that, come what may,
Our Father knows just what we need
Upon our pilgrim way.

Bible Students Hymnal
Tune: Wiltshire, G.T. Smart

The writer of this hymn appears unknown. It was originally printed by the Associated Bible Students, Aldersbrook Ecclesia who met in Wanstead at the Bowling Green (then in Ilford). It was included in a reprint of Christian Hymns and came from their Christian Hymns, in the Supplement printed in 1932 by Camelot Press.

Has anyone more information regarding the origin of this hymn?

Here are some verses which may have inspired the writer:

Matthew 6:32‑33 For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Psalm 33:18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy.

Proverbs 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

Psalm 103:14 For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Matthew 6:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Job 34:21 ESV For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

1 Peter 3:12 ESV For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

Isaiah 41:13 NKJV For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand, Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’

Eccl.2:24 NIV A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God.

Job 12:10 NRSV In His hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being.

Psalm 23:1‑4 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

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