11. My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore. Whatever affection they might pretend to, they kept out of his company,
lest they might be made to suffer through his calamities. It is very hard when
those who should be the first to come to the rescue are the first to desert us.
In times of deep soul trouble, even the most affectionate friends cannot enter
into the sufferer’s case; let them be as anxious as they may, the sores of a
tender conscience they cannot bind up. Oh, the loneliness of a soul passing
under the convincing power of the Holy Spirit! And my kinsmen stand afar off. As the women and others of our Lord’s acquaintance from afar gazed on
his cross, so a soul wounded for sin sees all mankind as distant spectators,
and in the whole crowd finds none to aid. Often relatives hinder seekers after Jesus,
oftener still they look on with unconcern, seldom enough do they endeavor to
lead the penitent to Jesus.
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