What we want to see in all God's children is that earnest love for souls, that keenness for soul-winning, that intense love which makes them do anything rather than miss a single soul; that earnestness which makes you say, " I do not care one atom for my reputation so long as I can get down and grasp that soul." But you know, souls refuse to be grasped by unloving and untender hands. This is where the love of the Spirit is so important in all God's workers. People must not be looked down upon from a pedestal. No: we must get right down to their level, and not only understand their difficulties so far as we can, but get lower than they are, and see if we cannot grasp them with a loving, tender hand. No one cares to go to an untender physician. We would prefer to go to a physician who will be gentle and loving and kind towards our defect, and who will tell us how he can put it right. Oh, that among Christians there should be that lack of tenderness! Those are the Christians whom God has often to crush. God puts His hand upon them, not in order that He may cause them to despair, but that His love may break into them, and that thereby they may be made vessels really meet for His use.
" Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of His understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."-Isa. 40:28-3128Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40:28‑31).