As A Father Pities His Children, So The Lord Pities Those Who Fear Him
Compassion
PSALM 103:13-14
“As a father pities his children, So the Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.
”Psalms 103:13-14 NKJV
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All too often, the cycles of abuse and dysfunction rob children of a loving father. But God is a loving Father, tender and compassionate, and available to everyone. He offers Himself as a Father to all.
Just like earthly fathers, He wants a relationship with His children-He wants a relationship with you.
He wants you to experience His presence, and to hear His voice in conversation with Him; He wants like a human father to be involved with the things you do, to help, teach, lead, and encourage you ; He wants to sooth and heal your wounds, and fix your troubles regardless of your faults and failings; indeed, He died on a cross to pay your penalty of sin and break every curse that you should have life, and have it abundantly (JOHN 10:10).
“He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.”
Isaiah 53:3-5 NKJV
We are fragile in body and mind, but God’s care is eternal.
To often we see God as a lawmaker and a judge, and ignore His loving compassion for us.
But when God looks at us, He remembers our “frame,” where we come from; He knows our human weaknesses and is ready and willing to help and faithful to forgive those who come to Him in repentance (2 PETER 3:9).
That’s not to say our weaknesses are an excuse to continue in sin, He takes everything into account; their will always be consequences for our actions, both good and evil. But you can be certain that He will deal with those with loving discipline, those who believe in Him compassionately.
However good or bad your relationship is with your human father, God loves you, and He is your eternal Father, He will never leave you or forsake you (DEUTERONOMY 31:6).
But that is not to say you cannot slip back from Him; He gave you free will to choose your eternal destiny. But Jesus said, ““If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.”
John 14:15-18 NKJV
My brethren, God knows our weaknesses, our faults and failings; He knows we cannot live right in our own strength. Therefore, He sent His Holy Spirit to lead and guide us through our daily lives, giving us the desire to do what pleases Him, and the power to do it (PHILIPPIANS 2:13). Furthermore, the Holy Spirit is the very help we need in any situation, our refuge and our strength (PSALM 41:1), and our guarantee of salvation (2 CORINTHIANS 1:22; EPHESIANS 1:14).
Nothing is too big or small for God, including your impossible situation that you are facing; “But He said, (Jesus) “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.””
Luke 18:27 NKJV
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:31-39 NKJV
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
