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How would it benefit the race to prove it to be wholly orphaned utterly left out of all consideration for its future care and happiness? "Like as an earthly father pitieth his children," Jesus affirmed, is the love of our Father, God, for the human-race. "I and my Father are one." "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work."
Consider him also as to his humanity, how that he is really flesh of our flesh; sinlessly so, sympathisingly so, so in all the compassions of a man; he is touched with, compassioneth, pitieth, loveth, succoureth us, and feeleth our infirmities, and maketh our case his own.
"O Thou that hearest prayer, unto Thee shall all flesh come." "Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what He hath done for my soul." "My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of His correction." "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him." "To-morrow shall take thought for the things of itself."
When at last she opened her eyes, Miss Warren turned hers heavenward with a fulness of gratitude that must have been sweet to the fatherly heart of God if the words be true, "Like as a father pitieth his children." Mrs. Yocomb threw herself on her knees by the bedside, sobbing, "Thank God! thank God!"
Our Master ordinarily makes our work easy; he is gentle, and easy to be entreated. "As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him:" but at his pleasure, and doubtless in deep ways for their good, he sometimes lays extraordinary burdens on his own.
I thought I was all alone and better than the rest." "It was wrong, I know," he replied, "but I am so foolish I cannot talk about these things; yet I felt so sorry for you just now, for I thought you had forgotten." "Forgotten what?" "How much God loves you. 'Like as a father pitieth his children, you know, Ruth."
It was the rapture of pointing to a new star flaming out, as it were, that swelled in John's exclamation: 'Beloved, now are we the sons of God! For even though in the Old Testament there are a few occasional references to Israel's King or to Israel itself as being 'God's son, as far as I remember, there is only one reference in all the Old Testament to parental love towards each of us on the part of God, and that is the great saying in the 103rd Psalm: 'Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. For the most part the idea connected in the Old Testament with the Fatherhood of God is authority: 'If I be a Father, where is Mine honour? says the last of the prophets.
When he heard King David's words: "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him," he expressed his astonishment that the comparison should be made with the love of a father for a child, and not with the love of a mother; mother love as a rule is considered the stronger and the more self-sacrificing.
His prayer had the same power of lifting us up fur above the world and settin' down our naked souls in the presence of Him who searcheth the heart, searchin' and probin' to our consciences, and yet consolin', puttin' us in mind of that text, "As a father pitieth his children" and yet wants 'em to mind. It wuz a prayer for help and as if we would git it.
God be thanked that, 'like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. But the true Christian idea of God's fatherhood is more than all this. This is a prayer for disciples, for those who alone can really pray. All men are God's children because all draw their life from Him, were made in His image, and are objects of His love.
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