Gem #38 - The Joy of a Newborn

Sinner, let this be your comfort, that God sees you when you begin to

repent. He does not see you with His usual gaze, with which He looks on

all men, but he sees you with an eye of intense interest. He has been

looking on you in all your sin, and in all your sorrow, hoping that you

would repent; and now He sees the first gleam of grace, and He beholds it

with joy. Never a soldier on the lonely castle top saw the first gray

light of morning with more joy than that with which God beholds the first

desire in your heart. Never a physician rejoiced more when he saw the

first heaving of the lungs in one that was supposed to be dead, than God

does rejoice over you, now that He sees the first symptom of good.