For how little will such a pantheistic faith, beautiful as it is, and true in part though it be, serve and console the heart when it is beset with agonizing doubt or disheartened by the strength and shame of its sin, or well-nigh crushed by a fatalistic sense of the hard, merciless rule of the inevitable! 4. All human history gives emphasis to the question, “Can a woman forget her child?” Others may degrade and desecrate the meaning of the word “love,” by saying profanely, “I loved once.” The mothers of the world are the monuments of the perpetuity--one had almost said, of the eternity--of love. Whatever historic value this opinion may have, there can be little doubt, to a careful reader, that much of the Old Testament imagery and poetry, which seek to cheer the hearts of men with promises of Divine comfort, can be best realized as we read into them the idea of the Motherhood of God. his essential Word Christ, the consolation of Israel, from whom all true and solid comforts flow; or the written word, read or heard, and especially as applied by the Spirit of God, who is another Comforter, and whose consolations the people of God walk in, nor are they small. The place where, by our own acts of devotion and hearing, we derive peace and rest. In the arms of the Mother-God, who stoops over us in the Saviour’s condescending ways, we arc put to sleep, and laid in stillness to rest “until the day break, and the shadows flee away.” Perhaps even more literally than we thought, our dead “die into the arms of God.” (F. Further, a philosophical interpretation of the person of the Christ, as well as the Scriptural declaration that man is made in the image of God, warrants the assertion that in a very true sense one of the worthiest conceptions of the Divine nature is that of a fully-developed, completely perfected, human nature. b. The one who brought you into the world! The assiduity of a mother is unwearied. AMP. The wheat-stacks are rounded. If God were merely a king, He would punish us. As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. II. In the midst of this re-construction work the Lord addresses His people by His prophet Isaiah. “No,” said Dr. Watson, very gently, “for it seems to me that all you find which is holy and helpful and adorable in the character of that most revered and beautiful of women--all that, and infinitely more, I find in her Divine Son.” “Yes, sir,” shesaid,, wistfully. THE CONSOLATION PROMISED. Isaiah 66:13 Context. With all the instruction and correction of a mother. To highly imaginative minds, to devout poetic temperaments, this habit of deifying everything is not a little fascinating. As the darkness falls their prattle grows drowsy. We wonder at times whether the prodigal son of our Lord’s parable had a mother. Does a mother’s love ever die? Study the Inner Meaning Chapter summary. Its patience is infinite. Isaiah 66:12 : Isaiah 66:14 >> American Standard Version As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. Nature in some of her moods is anything but pitiful. Isaiah 66:13. But “everlastingness is; and the “everlasting arms are the arms of the Mother-God. “I will deliver thee.” Are we disconsolate? He is not what he once was. Isaiah 66:19.—Clergyman's Magazine, vol. Isaiah 66:13 reminds us that every good aspect of every personâincluding womenâcomes from Him, the Creator. Or as, when a child behaves ill, the mother looks shy at it, and carries herself at a distance; which being observed, the child takes it to heart, and then that affects her, and she returns to it, and comforts it: thus, for faults committed, the Lord hides himself from his people, which grieves and troubles them; and then he gathers them to himself with great mercies, and with lovingkindness has mercy on them; and having also chastised them for their sins; and hearing them bemoaning themselves, his heart is moved towards them, and he restores comforts to them, to their mourning souls; see Isaiah 49:14, it is in the original, "as a man whom his mother comforteth" (a); for mothers have a tender regard to their sons when grown up to men's estate; and all the things above mentioned may befall the people of God, when they are become young men, yea, fathers: and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem; nothing shall hinder comfort when God speaks it, or resolves to give it; not Satan, and all his temptations; the world, and all its afflictions; nor all their sins and transgressions, and the sense they have of them; nor all their unbelief, by reason of which sometimes they refuse to be comforted; but when it is the will of God they should, a tide of comfort flows in, that overpowers all: and this is often done in Jerusalem, in the church, where the Lord grants his presence, and commands his blessings; where his word is preached unto consolation, and the ordinances, those breasts of consolation, are ministered and held forth; though this is said not to the exclusion of other places, where the Lord may meet his people and comfort them, in their own houses, in their closets, in their shops, in rising up and lying down, in going out and coming in. I. Or as, when a mother has an afflicted child more so than the rest, her heart yearns most after it, and she does all she can to comfort it. God has a mother simplicity of instruction. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Isaiah 65, as discussed in the commentary for week five, emphasizes divine retribution to explain Israelâs suffering, and eschatological hope to spur the people on. The sanctuary is the place where God's comforting presence is specially manifested. As the shadows lengthen we grow aweary. Isaiah 66:11, ESV: "that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious abundance.â" Isaiah 66:11, KJV: "That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the ⦠"The Holy Ghost the Comforter." God comforts as the mothers comforted of whom the prophet spoke. It has no farther flight. It is as if the sun should rise in the west, and set in the east. III. But the deep hunger and thirst of our more human natures will be unappeased, the more spiritual and practical cravings of our personal life will be slighted and wronged. parakalesw <3870> V-FAI-1S. A father sometimes shows a sort of favouritism. But a mother has so much patience that she will tell a child for the hundredth time the difference between F and G and between I and J. By her presence. ), At a summer resort a clergyman and a lady sat on the piazza of the hotel. The Lord will appear, to the joy of the humble believer, and to the confusion of hypocrites and persecutors. 1. III. âthat you may nurse ⦠3. Here is a boy--strong, well, of high forehead and quick intellect. “I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee.” Are we in danger? A CONSIDERATE COMFORTER. The only perfect mother is in the mind and heart of God. John Watson (In Maclaren)--he told me the story himself--was once in a Roman Catholic church in Italy. 2. Isaiah puts it into context of from one New Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come and to worship before Me. It not unfrequently occurs that men, whose scientific tastes or pursuits change rather than destroy their hold on religion, find their thoughts of nature, life, and God taking a purely pantheistic colouring. “I will comfort you.” It is the character of Divine promises that they apply to real cases they meet the condition and circumstances of man. Isaiah 66:14. IV. Supported by maternal sustenance, watched by maternal wisdom, embosomed in maternal love, the child has more from its mother, and owes, more to her, than science can analyze or poetry,, describe. God has a mother’s capacity for attending to little hurts. God comforts like the ideal mother. When the Spirit was poured out, and the gospel went forth from Zion, multitudes were converted in a little time. And He comforts as that image might be expected to comfort and would be capable of comforting. ), The Mother-God in Scripture several great Oriental scholars believe that in the earliest times the Semitic religions had a goddess, but no god. Evangelical theologians arc ever conscious of two elements in the character of God, whose nature and whose name is Love. And when the scorching dust came down, every one fled; but the mother could not leave her children, and she died with them. Significantly, Isaiah began the book with a condemnation of the shallow worship of God's people at the time of the New Moons and Sabbaths (Isaiah 1:12-15). In like manner, if the children are left fatherless, both sons and daughters suffer from the loss of their father’s sobering, restraining influence, while the daughters especially miss the strengthening force derivable from acquaintance with his life and character. God has a mother’s favouritism. 66:23 "All mankind will come to bow down before Me," says the Lord " The verb (BDB 1005, KB 295) is a rare Hishtapael (found only here). How ready to forgive her erring, wandering child--and ready to console in trouble. When we come to that word, we stumble, we halt, we lose our place, we pronounce it wrong. II. She allayed his fear and quieted him, until his head rested calmly on her loving heart. But, because he can neither express the greatness and warmth of the love which God bears toward us, nor satisfy himself with speaking about it, for that reason he mentions and repeats it frequently. 1. V. AN IMPORTANT MEANS. ), The Rev. 3. ... That is the really good news. This is the place for us to rest in. II. (T. De W. Talmage, D. D.). These intensely real elements in our,, experience must have a living background m” God from whom all things issue. Those who are Divinely comforted should seek to lead others to the same source of consolation (p. 407).—Alfred Tucker. Possibly also the Divine yearning over the wayward and prodigal may find a fresh setting in the idea of the Motherhood of God. This teaches--. God loves to the end. “I understand that for you, but you see you are a man, and you don t know how a woman needs a woman to pray to.” “And although I should be the last man in the world ever to become a Roman Catholic,” said Dr. Watson, when telling the story, “you’ll believe me when I assure you that I hadn’t the heart to add another word.” (Coulson Kernahan. What we have in these verses is a continuation of what Isaiah wrote in Isaiah 13. The law of righteousness and the ministry of mercy are always present. A mother may forget. Isaiah 66:12. Our version reads: “Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.” St. Paul wrote: “Them also which have been laid to sleep by Jesus will God bring with Him.” “Laid to sleep by Jesus.” There is a picture in the words--a homely and familiar one. KJ21. God has a mother’s, way of putting a child to sleep. And instinct should count for something in interpreting the God whose children we are. And He now lives to comfort you as a mother comforteth her child. We recall how when he wrote to the Thessalonian Church, he turned for a time from ministering the needed tonic of rebuke to the sweeter ministry of the comfort of hope. As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. But this is not addressed to irreligious scorners, who are not moved by any solicitude about the Church, but to those who, with holy zeal, declare that they are her children. xvii., No. THE MANNER IN WHICH CONSOLATION IS AFFORDED. 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