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Ärende: Guardian of the Fatherless
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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

Guardian of the Fatherless
Faith's Checkbook

March 6

Guardian of the Fatherless

"In Thee the fatherless findeth mercy" (Hosea 14:3).

This is an excellent reason for casting away all other confidences and relying
upon the LORD alone. When a child is left without its natural protector, our
God steps in and becomes his guardian: so also when a man has lost every object
of dependence, he may cast himself upon the living God and find in Him all that
he needs. Orphans are cast upon the fatherhood of God, and He provides for
them. The writer of these pages knows what it is to hang on the bare arm of
God, and he bears his willing witness that no trust is so well warranted by
facts, or so sure to be rewarded by results, as trust in the invisible but ever
living God.

Some children who have fathers are not much the better off because of them, but
the fatherless with God are rich. Better have God and no other friend than all
the patrons on the earth and no God. To be bereaved of the creature is painful,
but so long as the LORD remains the fountain of mercy to us, we are not truly
orphaned. Let fatherless children plead the gracious word for this morning, and
let all who have been bereaved of visible support do the same. LORD, let me
find mercy in Thee! The more needy and helpless I am, the more confidently do I
appeal to Thy loving heart.

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It was not the nails!

(J. C. Philpot)

"My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" Mark 15:34

It was not the nails driven through His hands and feet; it was not the crown of
thorns placed upon His brow; it was not the stripes which mangled His back; it
was not the languor and faintness under which He suffered-which caused the Lord
to die.

It was not the mere bodily agony of the cross; it was not the mere pain, though
most acute and severe, of the nails driven through His sacred hands and feet.
It was not the being stretched upon the cross six hours that constituted the
chief part of the Redeemer's suffering. But it was the almost intolerable load
of imputed sin-the imputed sins of millions. It was the tremendous pouring of
the wrath of God into His holy soul; it was the hiding of His Father's face,
and the very pangs of hell that there caught hold of Him.

Our suffering Savior drank the cup of the wrath of God to the very dregs-when
our vile, dreadful, and horrible sins were laid upon Him!

"Yet we considered Him stricken by God, smitten
 by Him, and afflicted." Isaiah 53:4

"Yet it pleased the Lord to crush Him, and cause
 Him to suffer, and though the Lord makes His
 soul an offering for sin . . ." Isaiah 53:10
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