Isaiah 44:14 ESV …He plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it.

Here’s a picture of God. The verses that follow are about the idiocy of taking the wood from the cedar and using part of it for the fire to keep warm and for cooking and then part of the same wood to call a god to ask help from. Yet, God sends the rain and nourishes the cedar.

It reminds me of: “But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” (Matt. 5:44-45 ESV)

If you want to be like your Father and grow up into His image, you love them all. You love your enemies. You love the fools. You feed the hungry. You care about not only the orphan and the widow, but the one who treats them unjustly.

I love the description of God in Psalm 68:5. In my head it sounds like a narrator announcing a superhero. “Father of the fatherless and protector of widows.”

He cares for them all, even for His own who have forgotten Him.

“For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name, I name you, though you do not know me.” Isaiah 44:4 ESV

He loves them all.

He loves us all.