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There was something of comfort in the mere feeling of doing it; and there was more in one or two words that even in that blank came to her mind; "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him;" and she again recollected that "Providence runneth not upon broken wheels."
His voice was not the inaudible pleading of a man praying in his chamber; it was like the despairing call of a strong swimmer in the death-billows. It went out over the ocean; it went out beyond time and space; it touched the heart of the Divinity who pitieth the sufferers, "even as a father pitieth his children." There was a glow of firelight through his cottage window, but no candle.
Can you find anything in the Old Testament that corresponds with the words 'Jesus wept'?" The student rapidly turned the leaves of the large Bible upon his lap, and read: "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. "For He knoweth our frame: He remembereth that we are dust." "That fits like light to the eye," exclaimed Lottie, with exultation.
"Surely He will feel in some way as they do about us," said Mildred, remembering and repeating the verse Pastor Dendel had taught her. "`Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him." "`For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust." So Oliver continued the psalm.
But further, let us take notice of the comparison. "As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him." Here is not only pity, but the pity of a relation, a father. It is said in another place; "Can a woman," a mother, "forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may, yet will not I forget thee."
God is there and God wants us; like as a father pitieth his children so He pitieth us. He knoweth our frame, He remembereth that we are dust. We know that is true; again we do not know it is true. All the sin that is in us and all which that sin has done to us insists and insists that it is not true. And the mind wonders and wonders.
Oft was a heavy yoke put on the burden of his childish shoulders. For this pitieth he the poor." "Locusts for the belly; patches for the back; a yoke for the shoulders! Shame on Israel that of this sort it would call a king even from Galilee where women labor in the field and men like cattle toil!" and Huldah's lip curled with scorn. "The toiler toileth that Herod may make great banquets.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so dost Thou pity all the woeful and heavy-hearted. Look down upon all those who must so soon awake to their griefs, speak comfortably to them; remember those in pain who must so soon take up their weary burdens!
And so long as there is this constant aim and purpose to obey Christ in all things, mistakes in judgment as to what is right and wrong are pitied, "even as a father pitieth his children," when from ignorance they run into harm. And even the most guilty transgressors are freely forgiven when truly repentant and faithfully striving to forsake the error of their ways.
Even if we can say, "Though clouds and darkness are round about him, justice and judgment are the habitation of his throne," and can acquiesce meekly in all his dispensations, and believe sincerely that they will work for our good, yet we often fail of the blessedness which might be ours, if we could be equally assured that, "As a father pitieth his children, so doth the Lord pity them that fear him."
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