| Garden of the Heart |
Chapter 17 |
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God’s first coming to us is in our mother. He could not come then to us otherwise. Infancy could not understand God in His majesty, glory, and greatness. So our mother’s tenderness, yearning, devotion, and fondness are from God, revealing of God’s own heart, God Himself coming to the child in the mother. We may never be afraid that we can overstate the tenderness and care of the divine love. Indeed, we are apt to put God too far off, thinking of Him too much in His majesty and greatness. Sinai is not the truest revealing of Him. Jesus with little children in His arms, or a mother comforting her hurt child, is better.
“Why seek ye for Jehovah
‘Mid Sinai’s awful smoke?
The burning bush now shelters
A sparrow’s humble folk;
The curve of God’s sweet heaven
Is the curve of the leaf of oak;
The Voice that stilled the tempest
To the little children spoke–
The bread of life eternal
Is the bread He blessed and broke.
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