Tender Comfort

Tender Comfort, March 14
Author: Charles H. Spurgeon From the book: Faith's Checkbook

"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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Wow, what an amazing passage. I recently have wanted to go home to my mother, wanting to just lay my head in her lap, listen to her talk, talk back, watch movies (Little Women!) together, and just spend time with her. Aside from God and my husband, I am blessed with an amazing women of God as a mother, and she is my best friend. No matter what, she is there for me to the fullest of her ability. And to know that God can be my comfort even more so then my mother is SO amazing. Knowing I do not have to deal with the agonies of life all alone but that God is there, He knows how I feel even moreso then I do, He shares in my pain and will comfort me. I can't wait to get to heaven so I can lay my head in my Savior's lap and listen to Him speak and be in complete Adoration and Awe of His words. Agape.

P.S. I still want to go home and spend time with my mom, its been nearly 2 years since I've seen her! Pray that this day comes soon. I miss her!