March 6

Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook

GUARDIAN OF THE FATHERLESS

   "In thee the fatherless findeth mercy" Hos. 14:3

   This is an excellent reason for casting away all other confidences and
   relying upon the Lord alone. When a child is left without its natural
   protector, our God steps in and becomes his guardian: so also when a
   man has lost every object of dependence, he may cast himself upon the
   living God and find in Him all that he needs. Orphans are cast upon the
   fatherhood of God, and He provides for them. The writer of these pages
   knows what it is to hang on the bare arm of God, and he bears his
   willing witness that no trust is so well warranted by facts, or so sure
   to be rewarded by results, as trust in the invisible but ever living
   God.

   Some children who have fathers are not much the better off because of
   them, but the fatherless with God are rich. Better have God and no
   other friend than all the patrons on the earth and no God. To be
   bereaved of the creature is painful, but so long as the Lord remains
   the fountain of mercy to us, we are not truly orphaned. Let fatherless
   children plead the gracious word for this morning, and let all who have
   been bereaved of visible support do the same. Lord, let me find mercy
   in thee! The more needy and helpless I am, the more confidently do I
   appeal to thy loving heart.