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From Heaven With Love
These things made Jesus’ path thorny. So pained was Christ by
the misapprehension in His own home that it was a relief to go where
it did not exist. He loved to visit the home of Lazarus, Mary, and
Martha, for in the atmosphere of faith and love His spirit had rest.
Yet often He could find relief only in being alone and communing
with His Father.
Those who are called to endure misapprehension and distrust for
Christ’s sake in their own homes may find comfort in the thought
that Jesus endured the same. He bids them find companionship in
Him and relief in communion with the Father.
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Those who accept Christ are not left as orphans, to bear trials
alone. As members of the heavenly family, He bids them call His
Father their Father. He has toward them an exceeding tenderness,
far surpassing what our father or mother felt toward us in our help-
lessness.
When through poverty a Hebrew had been forced to sell himself
as a bondservant, the duty of redeeming him fell to the one nearest
of kin. See
Leviticus 25:25, 47-49
;
Ruth 2:20
. So the work of
redeeming us fell on Him who is “near of kin” to us. Christ became
our kinsman. Closer than father, mother, brother, friend, or lover is
the Lord our Saviour. We cannot understand this love, but we can
know it to be true in our own experience.
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