Your father did it as did mine. He stood over your infant bed and wondered at the miraculous gift he was given. Inevitably with the back of a finger he fondled your soft cheek. I have seen my husband do this and it would seem that his rough hands could bruise the tender skin, but they never did. His touch, full of love and compassion, ran like water over a smooth surface.
That picture expresses God's tender compassion toward all His children. The Bible says, "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him." Psalm 103:13. The word pitieth in Hebrew is racham. It means "to fondle; by implication to love, especially to compassionate..." Because He is our Father, the Lord watches over us and marvels at the wonderful gift He has in us. He fondles us with oceans of love and compassion. In our infantile ignorance we do not recognize the touch, still it changes us. We are surrounded by it; buoyed up by it, and it makes us live.
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