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Divine Compassion

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jan 25, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 4.

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Divine Compassion

THE only explanation for the love of God as shown in his dealings with us is the simple truth that God is love.
“God is love; his mercy brightens All the path in which we rove; Bliss he wakes, and woe he lightens: God is wisdom, God is love.”
Even when we have wandered from God and have grieved him by a rebellious course, yet his love follows us and invites us to return. It is his glory to forgive the repentant sinner and to receive him graciously. He is “long-suffering to us ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” “All the paternal love which has come down from generation to generation through the channels of human hearts, all the springs of tenderness which have opened in the souls of men, are but as a tiny rill to the boundless ocean, when compared with the infinite, exhaustless love of God. Tongue can not utter it; pen can not portray it. You may meditate upon it every day of your life; you may search the Scriptures diligently in order to understand it; you may summon every power and capability that God has given you, in the endeavor to comprehend the love and compassion of the Heavenly Father; and yet there is an infinity beyond. You may study that love for ages; yet you can never fully comprehend the length and breadth, the depth and height, of the love of God in giving his Son to die for the world. Eternity itself can never fully reveal it.”
“O Lord, my soul rejoiceth in thee, My tongue thy mercy is telling; I've found thy love so precious to me, My heart with its rapture is swelling.”
“I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.”