Editorial January 30, 1984 Issue

God's tender, healing mercy

WILLIAM E. MOODY

A recent popular film tells the fictional story of a man who had hit rock bottom after a number of personal crises and a heavy drinking problem had left his career in ruins. Drifting aimlessly, he finds himself at a little motel and gas station along a state highway in rural Texas.

The motel is owned by a widow who is raising her young son. The man asks her for work. As the weeks go by, he is obviously moved by her kindness and simple Christianity, and he begins to change—to be reformed. The drinking problem is overcome, and he finally asks the woman to marry him. She agrees. A later scene shows the woman telling her new husband that every night she thanks God for all His tender mercies. And then she says that her son and her husband head the list.

The woman's longing for companionship and support had been answered. Her son now had a father. The man had a new life and purpose and family. And behind all of these blessings was that simple faith and trust in God's tender mercies.

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