In Isaiah, chapter forty, verse eleven, “He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.” God is described as one who picks up an individual lamb to protect it and carry it close to His heart. Although God is all-powerful, as in verse ten, and He regards the nations as dust, as in verse fifteen, He still cares for each of HIs own in a personal way. Believers must never think that God is so majestic that He ignores the needs and problems of the individual believer.
All human life is a warfare; While the Christian life is the most so. However, the struggle will not last always. Troubles are removed in love when sin is pardoned. In the great atonement of the death of Christ, the mercy of God is exercised to the glory of his justice. In Christ, and his sufferings, true penitents receive of the Lord’s hand double for all their sins; for the satisfaction Christ made by his death was of infinite value.
And may the Lord prepare our hearts by the teaching of His word and the convictions of His Spirit, that high and proud thoughts may be brought down, good desires planted, crooked and rugged tempers made straight and softened, every hinderance removed, that we may be ready for His will on earth, and prepared for His heavenly kingdom. What is all that belongs to fallen man, all that he does, but as the grass and the flower thereof! And what will all the titles and possessions of a dying sinner avail when they leave him under condemnation! The word of the Lord can do that for us which all flesh cannot.