The Loving-Kindness of God
THE LOVING-KINDNESS OF GOD.—The loving-kindness of God—what a beautiful expression! How rich and consoling the thought contained in it! It is not mere good-will—not mere complacent friendship—not the mere neighborly kindness of human beings, although these are of high and precious account; it is the good-will, the friendship, the kindness of love—of the love of God, who is love itself. We know something of the loving-kindness of father and mother. We have been gently tended and nursed by this kindness: or, parents ourselves, we know full well the throbbing of parental affection. Deep, earnest, selfsacrificing is human love in many tender relations. We trust in it fervently, and without fear. Oh! if there were no human love in which we can trust, what a desolate place would this earth be! But the loving-kindness of God—of that great and incomprehensible Being who fills the universe with his presence, and before whose majesty the pillars of heaven tremble—what a loving-kindness that must be!—the kindness of infinite love wedded to infinite power! There is nothing that love can conceive of, or wish to do for its object, but is contained here, and rendered not only possible, but absolutely certain. —Sunday-school Times.