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Psa. 107:9. There is rest in the tender love That has trodden our path below; That has
given us a place The nearer a man
walks with God through grace, the more tender he becomes as to the
faults of others; the longer he lives as a saint, the more conscious of
the faithfulness and tenderness of God, and of what it has been applied
to in himself. Even as the Lord
Jesus so perfectly entered into the sorrow … around Him when here, and
was therefore a “man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;” so in his
measure ought the saint to take up the sense of the weight of evil that
is in the world, and thus become a man of sorrows also. The soul rejoices
in … the immutable blessedness of God’s presence. Then whatever the
circumstances in which we are placed, if they be only of those of
sorrow and trial, what is the consequence? God ministers of the fulness
of the sympathy of His love to our souls; and thus they become, so to
speak, as a door, or a chink to let in God. Christ’s heart
was moved when He saw sorrow. He would not have us cold and indifferent
to it, nor yet, on the other hand, selfishly affected by it, but full
of tenderness and compassion towards those who are suffering. “He has
set us an example that we should follow his steps.” I have always
felt that the first break in the family is more than all others … but
Christ has come in where death was and given a life beyond it all. He
calls us in gracious and tender love to live in that. He knows how to
comfort—knows what death is far better than we do, because He is the
resurrection and the life—has wept over it and suffered it. He will
comfort you … with a comfort which, if it feels for death, death cannot
touch. Christ was ever
the perfect sociable man, perfectly accessible to sinners because He
was thoroughly separated from them, and set apart for God
inwardly, and had denied Himself, to live only by the words of
God. … Such is the life of God below. … If we are truly free within, we
can sympathise with that which is outside. The blessed Lord
never fails in sympathy and kindness for the inevitable sorrows of
the way. If He takes away what was long an object, and for our hearts
at least a prop, He always comes in to cheer and comfort the spirit. He
alone we can never lose, who is really nearer to us than any human tie. You cannot be in
any condition that Christ did not come into. He plunged into the very
sea of men’s misery to help you out. It is a comfort to get mans
sympathy, but he often cannot help us. What is it to get God’s
sympathy, which has power in it. Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the Writings, Hymns,
Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby SEDIN-Servicio Evangélico |
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