Psalms 27:10. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
"My father and my mother are the last to forsake me; they were the first to love me, and they will be the last to leave me, but if they do leave me, then Jehovah will take me up, and he will be both father and mother to me." Just as it was said to Naomi concerning Ruth, "Thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, is better to thee than seven sons;" so may the Lord say to his bereaved people, "Am I not better unto you than father, or mother, or sister, or children, or wife, or husband? Am I not better than all beside? Can you not find all in me?" "The Lord will take me up." What a beautiful figure this is! The child seems deserted, but God takes it up, and carries it in his bosom. "Oh, I am no child!" says one. But do you not recollect that precious text, "Even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you," - you old ones as well as young ones, - " I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you." It is well to be bereft of every earthly confidence that we may be taken up by God alone.
Psalms 27:10. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
"My father and my mother are the last to forsake me; they were the first to love me, and they will be the last to leave me, but if they do leave me, then Jehovah will take me up, and he will be both father and mother to me." Just as it was said to Naomi concerning Ruth, "Thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, is better to thee than seven sons;" so may the Lord say to his bereaved people, "Am I not better unto you than father, or mother, or sister, or children, or wife, or husband? Am I not better than all beside? Can you not find all in me?" "The Lord will take me up." What a beautiful figure this is! The child seems deserted, but God takes it up, and carries it in his bosom. "Oh, I am no child!" says one. But do you not recollect that precious text, "Even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you," - you old ones as well as young ones, - " I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you." It is well to be bereft of every earthly confidence that we may be taken up by God alone.