She does not cast it out of doors, she does not run
and leave it, she does not kill it because all these things have been and
still are in its sad little heart. Her power for good with such a child
lies just in her pity, in her compassion, and in her patience with her
child. And the child that is in all of us is to be treated in the same
patient, hopeful, believing, forgiving, divine way. We should all be
with ourselves as God is with us. He knoweth our frame. He remembereth
that we are dust. He shows all patience toward us. He does not look for
great things from us. He does not break the bruised reed, nor quench the
smoking flax. He shall not fail nor be discouraged till He have set
judgment in the earth. And so shall not we.
5. And, then,--it is a sufficiently startling thing to say, but--we must
learn to be patient with God also. All our patience, and all the
exercises of it, if we think aright about it, all run up in the long-run
into patience with God. But there are some exercises of patience that
have to do directly and immediately with God and with God alone.
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