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Adventistische Schriften über: "What is the meaning of God's motherly comfort in Isaiah 66:13?"
Answer
The motherly comfort of God in Isaiah 66:13 illustrates that God fulfills every human relational role and meets His children with a tenderness that even surpasses the deepest motherly love. This promise is closely linked to the restoration of God's people and the future glory of the heavenly Jerusalem, where the redeemed will experience perfect bliss. In daily experience, the example of earthly parents serves to make the love, justice, and patience of God understandable to children.
God fulfills every life relationship
»God never abandons His offspring. He does not cast out His children when they fall into sin. He fulfills every relationship in life. He is to us Father, Mother – “As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you” – brother, friend, everything. But as far as He is concerned, we are always children; “little children”; also infants. ... God will always be infinitely superior to us, so that the wisest man in comparison to Him will always be less than the little infant in comparison to his parent.«
Jerusalem as a personified mother
»Here Jerusalem is beautifully personified as a living, loving mother; and “those who love her”, as children who are “carried on the arms” and “rocked on the knees”, “comforted in Jerusalem”, “rejoicing over the fullness of her glory”. ... In this [text] we clearly recognize Jerusalem as the wife of Christ and mother of the saints.«
Parents as representatives of divine comfort
»Fathers and mothers and teachers must better recognize the responsibility and honor that God has entrusted to them, having made them representatives of Himself for the child. The character revealed in daily life contact will interpret for the child, for good or for evil, those words of God: “As a father has mercy on his children, so the Lord has mercy on those who fear Him.” “As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you.” Happy is the child in whom such words awaken love, gratitude, and trust.«
A compassion that surpasses motherly love
»In the gracious blessings that our heavenly Father has bestowed upon us, we can recognize countless evidences of an infinite love and a tender compassion that surpasses the yearning compassion of a mother for her wayward child. When we study the divine character in the light of the cross, we see mercy, tenderness, and forgiveness mingled with equity and justice.«
Original Sources (English)
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