January 17
Companions of the Way (Morning)In all their affliction He was afflicted.
JOHN CAIRD
IN the Christian doctrines of the Incarnation and Atonement, whatever else they mean, we find a sanction for the thought that in the nature of God there is a capacity of condescending love, of boundless pity and forgiveness, yea, with reverence be it said, of pain and sorrow and sacrifice for the salvation of finite souls, a capacity which has been, and could only be, revealed and realised through the sorrow and sin of the world.
DIVINE SYMPATHY