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 God Our Father Who Saves Us ㅡ

 “Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: you, O LORD, are our father, our redeemer; your name is from everlasting.”

 (Isaiah 63:16)

 In the gracious blessings which our heavenly Father has bestowed upon us we may discern innumerable evidences of a love that is infinite, and a tender pity surpassing a mother’s yearning sympathy for her wayward child.

 When we study the divine character in the light of the cross we see mercy, tenderness, and forgiveness blended with equity and justice.

 In the language of John we exclaim: “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.”

 We see in the midst of the throne One bearing in hands and feet and side the marks of the suffering endured to reconcile man to God and God to man.

 Matchless mercy reveals to us a Father, infinite, dwelling in light unapproachable, yet receiving us to Himself through the merits of His Son.

 The cloud of vengeance which threatened only misery and despair, in the reflected light from the cross reveals the writing of God: Live, sinner, live! ye penitent and believing souls, live! I have paid a ransom.

 (Testimonies for the Church Volume 4 461.3)