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God is love. Strength alone would not be enough. Strength is not always gentle. A tyrant may be strong, but we would not care to entrust our life to him. We crave affection, tenderness. God is love. His gentleness is infinite. The hands into which we are asked to commit our spirit are wounded hands – wounded in saving us. The heart over which we are asked to nestle is the heart that was broken on the cross in love for us. We need not fear to stay ourselves on such a being.
“All is of God that is, and is to be;
And God is good. Let this suffice us still,
Resting in childlike trust upon his will
Who moves to his great ends unthwarted by the ill.”
God is eternal. Human love is very sweet. A mother’s bosom is a wondrously gentle place for a child to nestle in. The other day two letters came from a sanitarium in the North. One was from a young wife, married only last summer, now fighting a battle with consumption. She wrote hopefully, referring to the many hemorrhages she had had, but saying that now she was surely recovering. She then spoke of her desire to get well enough to go home soon to her husband. “Surely He will not separate us so early,” she wrote; “We are so happy together!” The other letter was from the sick woman’s friend who is with her. She wrote that the doctors have no hope.
So frail is human strength, though back of it is tenderest, truest love. All that love can do, all that money can do, all that skill can do, avails nothing. Human arms may clasp us very firmly, yet their clasp cannot keep us form the power of disease or from the cold hand of death. But the love and strength of God are everlasting. Nothing can ever separate us from him. An Old Testament promise reads: “The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.” If we are stayed upon the eternal God, nothing ever can disturb us, for nothing can disturb him on whom we are reposing. If we are held in the clasp of the everlasting arms, we need not fear that we shall ever be separated from the enfolding.
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