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       Faith's Checkbook

      Tender Comfort
      Charles H. Spurgeon
      Mar 13, 2007


March 14
Tender Comfort

"As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you" (Isaiah 66:13).

A mother's comfort! Ah, this is tenderness itself. How she enters into her
child's grief! How she presses him to her bosom and tries to take all his
sorrow into her own heart! He can tell her all, and she will sympathize as
nobody else can. Of all comforters the child loves best his mother, and even
full-grown men have found it so.

Does Jehovah condescend to act the mother's part? This is goodness indeed. We
readily perceive how He is a father; but will He be as a mother also? Does not
this invite us to holy familiarity, to unreserved confidence, to sacred rest?
When God Himself becomes "the Comforter," no anguish can long abide. Let us
tell out our trouble, even though sobs and sighs should become our readiest
utterance. He will not despise us for our tears; our mother did not. He will
consider our weakness as she did, and He will put away our faults, only in a
surer, safer way than our mother could do. We will not try to bear our grief
alone; that would be unkind to one so gentle and so kind. Let us begin the day
with our loving God, and wherefore should we not finish it in the same company,
since mothers weary not of their children?

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851 C.M. J. HART
Faith and Works. James 2. 17; Gal. 5. 6; 1 John. 3. 7

1 When filthy passions or unjust
Professors' minds control;
When men give up the reins to lust, And interest sways the whole;

2 Or when they seek themselves to please, Decline each thorny road,
Indulge their sloth, consult their ease, And slight the fear of God;

3 The faith is vain such men profess; It comes not from above;
The righteous man does righteousness, And true faith works by love.

4 [Men's actions with their minds will suit; By them the heart is viewed;
A tree that bears corrupted fruit,
Cannot be callŠd good.]

5 The Christian seeks his brother's good, Sometimes beyond his own;
Or, if self-interest will intrude,
It does not reign alone.

6 Help us, dear Lord, to honour thee; Let our good works abound;
Thou art that green, that fruitful tree; From thee our fruit is found.


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