God's Pitying Love by T. E. Bowen

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 5, 1908

God's Pitying Love

By T. E. Bowen

T. E. BOWEN

God loves his people. He is not watching to pick some flaw in their lives, on account of which to condemn them. This is Satan's work. Satan accuses the servants of Christ, and then tries to make us believe it is God who condemns.

“It is Satan's work to fill men's hearts with doubt. He leads them to look upon God as a stern judge. He tempts them to sin, and then to regard themselves as too vile to approach their Heavenly Father, or to excite his pity. The Lord understands all this. Jesus assures his disciples of God's sympathy for them in their needs and weaknesses. Not a sigh is breathed, not a pain felt, not a grief pierces the soul, but the throb vibrates to the Father's heart.”

“God is bending from his throne to hear the cry of the oppressed. To every sincere prayer he answers, ‘Here am I.’”

As my eye caught these words in “Desire of Ages,” somehow they touched my heart with a new sense of God's wonderful love and tender interest in every one of us. Truly he loves his

children. He desires us to know it, and to act as if we believed it. And what greater work do we have, after all, than manifesting to those about us the tender love which God has for souls that have been beguiled away from his love by the deceiver? God's special interest is here. He is interested in the salvation and welfare of every soul.

We may not be versed in all the customs and ways of the people with whom we mingle; but if our hearts are filled with love for others, our broken sentences in a strange tongue, or our transgression of some custom, will be interpreted much as were the efforts of a missionary laboring in Peru—Mr. Newell, who laid down his life among that people—by a Peruvian girl, who, in speaking of his labors among them, said: “He not speak our language very well. He learn from little to little, but love make all things in him.”

If love makes all the things in us, souls will respond to this call of heaven manifested through God's children, and many more will be adopted into the heavenly family. And it might safely be added that many who have already been brought in might be kept within the fold by the manifesting of a little more of God's tender love.

Takoma Park, D. C.