Mar 10
7
Guardian of the Fatherless
It’s easy to feel as if you are completely abandoned when you are in any kind of prison. If the bars of your prison are man made, mental or physical they separate you from your loved ones. In these times we are given the gift of desperation to connect with somebody that see’s us and Loves us. Thank God for that desperation for it is only when we Hunger and Thirst, we look for the food of Gods Word and the Water of the Holy Spirit. The Father who promises to never leave us, never to forsake us. The father who will never leave you/me/us fatherless.
VR
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Faith’s Check Book, Daily Entry
C. H. Spurgeon
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 al) 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.
New Hearts, renewed minds and Loving safe fellowship in Christ Jesus offered here!