God's Love and Care

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 27, 1864

God's Love and Care.

"LIKE as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him."—Bible.

Blessed thought—and how expressive of the love and care of our Heavenly Father for the children of his kingdom on earth. Truly heart-cheering it is for his servants to remember, when borne down by the weight of affliction—when ready to sink in the waters of adversity—when disheartened and discouraged from the fiery ordeals through which they are called to pass—whatever their avocation and wherever their home,—the God of Heaven is not unmindful of them. We are glad to feel that we have the sympathies of our fellow-

creatures—but should not the remembrance that the Infinite, in all the ills that befall us from the errors of our sin-depraved natures, and from the persecutions of a fallen world, lends a pitying ear to our cries of sorrow and is ever ready to bind up the broken, penitent heart?

Let us trust Him—coming to Him in the way of His appointments,—and we shall learn by happy experience that He not only pities, but will shield us from the power of our adversaries, bring us safely through life's pilgrimage, and give us an inheritance where all will be well.