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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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