The Father pitieth

Psalm 103:13 talks about God pitying us the way a father pities their child. I really thought about this verse the other day when I was looking at my daughter on the couch and just how small and precious she is. A parent can't help but pity their children. When we look at them we feel compassion and almost a kind of sorrow because we know how hard life can get sometimes. We look at our children wanting the best for them, hoping they'd never cry, hurt themselves or be disappointed.

I want my daughter to realize all her potential, I want her to be happy and well at all times. I want my children to serve God with their whole hearts. I don't want the world to get to them as I've seen so many great parents lose their children to the world. I feel pity when I see her struggle to sit up, knowing she wants to so badly but is unable to do so right now. I look at her little hands and pity how they are unable to go exactly where she wants them to right now, or how she cannot communicate her needs as yet. And the reasons for pity goes on.

Now can we imagine what God thinks when he's looking at us? How great are his wishes and desires for our lives? That's easy to know because he says it so many times in his word.
God wants us to have:
Peace (Jeremiah 29:11)
All our needs met (Philippians 4:19)
Happiness (Psalm 144:15)
Good marriage (proverbs 18:22)
Eternal life (Titus 1:2)
Comfort (John 14:18)
And many, many more that are found throughout his word.

Now, Psalm 103:13 says this feeling of pity comes from the father for their child. It's a connection that not everyone can understand or will feel towards a child. If you have kids, you know the difference between how you feel about other people's children versus your own. I love other children who belong to my friends and family members but the feelings cannot come close to what I feel for my own. Not because I'm selfish but because God has designed it to be that way.
So in this verse we see that these feelings of pity are reserved for those who fear God. If we truly hold God in all reverence and in awe by our words and actions, we bring on his pity. If we have confessed and accepted Christ as our saviour and are walking on his narrow path, we will invoke the pity of the Lord upon us.

If there were anyone I wanted to pity me, it would be God. He has all ability and power to truly pity me. It just warmed my heart to think that the God of heaven looks at me the way I look at my children. Of course God's pity surpasses what I feel for my children. This is just another benefit of following God. Now don't think you can say you believe just to get the many blessings in store from God, it doesn't work like that. Just like you can't go to Donald Trump and say you're his child to get his riches, it doesn't work like that with God.

I hope you have accepted Jesus and I hope this verse brings comfort to your heart as to how amazing God is towards us, let us find joy in his pity towards us. If you have not accepted Jesus, it's simple and starts with confessing that you're a sinner that needs a saviour and that saviour is Jesus Christ. Romans 10:9 "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."