Chapter 33—Promises of Divine Guidance
How Sweet the Consciousness of a Divine Friend—Your com-
passionate Redeemer is watching you with love and sympathy, ready
to hear your prayers and to render you the assistance which you need.
He knows the burdens of every mother’s heart and is her best friend
in every emergency. His everlasting arms support the God-fearing,
faithful mother. When upon earth, He had a mother that struggled
with poverty, having many anxious cares and perplexities, and He
sympathizes with every Christian mother in her cares and anxieties.
That Saviour who took a long journey for the purpose of relieving the
anxious heart of a woman whose daughter was possessed by an evil
spirit will hear the mother’s prayers and will bless her children.
He who gave back to the widow her only son as he was carried
to the burial is touched today by the woe of the bereaved mother. He
who wept tears of sympathy at the grave of Lazarus and gave back to
Martha and Mary their buried brother; who pardoned Mary Magdalene;
who remembered His mother when He was hanging in agony upon
the cross; who appeared to the weeping women and made them His
messengers to spread the first glad tidings of a risen Saviour—He is
woman’s best friend today and is ready to aid her in all the relations of
life
No work can equal that of the Christian mother. She takes up her
work with a sense of what it is to bring up her children in the nurture
and admonition of the Lord. How often will she feel her burden’s
weight heavier than she can bear; and then how precious the privilege
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of taking it all to her sympathizing Saviour in prayer! She may lay her
burden at His feet and find in His presence a strength that will sustain
her and give her cheerfulness, hope, courage, and wisdom in the most
trying hours. How sweet to the careworn mother is the consciousness
of such a friend in all her difficulties! If mothers would go to Christ
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