Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
Psalm 103:13
"Believe it then, dear friends, with all your hearts, that God has kindly
feelings towards them that fear him, such as a father has towards his
children.
This is a truth of which
I do not wish to
see it toned down.
Though He knows that there is sin in you, which, perhaps, may require
this rough discipline ere you be sanctified, yet He pities you.
Though He can hear the music of heaven, the songs and glees that will
ultimately come of your present sighs and griefs, yet still He pities
those groans and wails of yours;
---God is not unfeelingly afflicting you; but He is pitying you.
Hear it
that you may be impelled to go into the world with a like pitying eye.
If you ever have to say a rough word in fidelity, or are required to
utter a stern rebuke, do it after the manner of your heavenly Father,
pitying even if you have to blame, and gently delivering the
expostulation which it grieves you to have to deliver at all."
Charles Spurgeon