November 12

Sympathy

“In all their affliction he was afflicted.”
— Isa. 63:9

“Even as the Lord Jesus so perfectly entered into the sorrow … around Him when here, and was therefore a "man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;" so in his measure ought the saint to take up the sense of the weight of evil that is in the world, and thus become a man of sorrows also.”

“The soul rejoices in … the immutable blessedness of God's presence. Then whatever the circumstances in which we are placed, if they be only of those of sorrow and trial, what is the consequence? God ministers of the fulness of the sympathy of His love to our souls; and thus they become, so to speak, as a door, or a chink to let in God.”