Editorial July 28, 1923 Issue

God's Loving Care

Duncan Sinclair

Mankind is beginning to understand that God is Love, and to realize something of what this profound spiritual truth implies. Christ Jesus taught the fatherhood of God, and strove to bring home to the hearts of humanity that God, the Father, cares for His creation with infinite tenderness. He illustrated the Father's love very strikingly in the parable of the prodigal son. There parental love is shown to reign with as glorious constancy when the boy's life was being lived in gross materialism as when he returned in repentance to his father's roof. On many other occasions the Master told his listeners of the love of God; and, moreover, every one of the miracles he performed demonstrated that God is Love; for not one of them could have been accomplished had he not reflected that Love in the love he expressed in his own life.

But long before Jesus' day the truth about God's loving care had been known to some extent by the prophets and seers of the Hebrew race. Thus, in the song of Moses is to be found the wonderful statement, "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms." Surely plainer words could not have been used to sing of God's loving care. "The eternal God is thy refuge"! Were God not Love, how could He be our refuge? "Underneath are the everlasting arms"! What a sense of tenderness and protection the words convey! Multiply the tender love of human fatherhood or motherhood by infinity, and we get a glimpse of the love of our Father-Mother God.

"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved." The Psalmist knew, as did Moses, the love of God for His children; knew the sustaining power of God's love; knew how God's love was to be procured when the burdens of sense were heavy. Righteousness brought the love of God into alignment with human needs, ameliorating human distress, healing human woe. Is it not a joy to contemplate how men in the distant past were appreciative of the love of God and aware of the law of its activity?

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