Wonderful
it is to think that the children of Israel came to understand the loving-kindness of God as they did, came to apprehend in no small degree the fact that God is Love! One has only to study the psalms, those songs of the Hebrews, to notice how strong their conviction of God's loving-kindness had become, and because of it how they were learning to place their trust in His protecting care.
There are, perhaps, no words of Shakespeare more widely known than these which proclaim the beauty and desirability of divine mercy; and all certainly are wise who cherish this quality in their heart of hearts, allowing it to bring forth fruit after its own kind.
Perhaps
no phase of Jesus' incomparable message to the world has a deeper significance than his revelation of God as Spirit, infinite, ever present, and all-powerful.
How dear to every human heart is success! How men love the least thought of it! How earnestly they work for it, struggle for it, pray for it! The desire for it enters into the child's earliest experiences, and goes on increasingly through his later years.
In
the days immediately following the taking over by Joshua of the leadership of the children of Israel, then in full view of the promised land which they had so long sought, the successor to Moses received direct messages from God which comforted and heartened him for the great work ahead.
Invariably
, the student of the Old Testament is impressed by the frequency of the messages which the prophets and seers of ancient time received direct from God.
