5. In the wilderness the people were like an orphan nation, but God was
more than a father to them. As the generation which came out of Egypt gradually
died away, there were many widows and fatherless ones in the camp, but they
suffered no want or wrong, for the righteous laws and the just administrators
whom God had appointed looked well to the interests of the needy. The
tabernacle was the Palace of Justice; the ark was the seat of the great King.
This was great cause for joy to Israel, that they were ruled by One who would
not let the poor and needy be oppressed. To this day and forever God is, and
will be, the especial guardian of the defenseless. How zealously ought his
church to cherish those who are here marked out as Jehovah’s especial charge.
Does he not here in effect say, “Feed my
lambs”?
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