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These words refer to the miner who digs for the treasure hidden in the earth. He finds the vein of silver, and the place for the gold. But if man's eye sees the precious things, let us think how God sees them.

I. HE SEES THE PROMISE AND POSSIBILITY. There are many things of which, at a glance, men can see the worth; things that proclaim themselves loudly. Some things only the genius can see. The gold is in the quartz, but invisible. And what a poor thing is humanity! How hard it is to find in many people any promise of any goodness, any possibility of any worth. But lo! our God bends over us, and to Him this humanity is infinitely precious. To Him it is a pearl of great price, for which He hath given all, that He may purchase it for His own. This is the glory of our God; this is the meaning of His salvation — that He sees in humanity an infinite worth, that which He can uplift and beautify and transform into His own very image and likeness.

II. HE SEES THE EFFORT AND WILL, WHERE OTHERS SEE ONLY THE POOR RESULT. God does not measure what we bring to Him, He weighs it. He knows what it cost.

III. HE SEES THE GREAT RESULT, WHERE WE SEE BUT THE PROCESS. God sees for Joseph the throne of Egypt; the sceptre of that great nation is in his hand. But what does Joseph see when carried off by the Midianites? Thus is it ever that God sees the glorious result when we see but the dreary processes. He hears the joyous shout of harvest home, where we have only the chill earth and the darkness of the grave. This is our safety and our blessedness — to give ourselves to Him who knows how to turn us to the beat account, and to let Him have His own way with us perfectly.

(Mark Guy Pearse.)

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KJV: He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

WEB: He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.