The image is the same as in Deut. 1. already referred to. It recurs also in (Isaiah 46:3-4),'Even to hoar hairs will I carry you, and I have made and I will bear, yea, I will carry, and will deliver'; and in (Hosea 11:3), I taught Ephraim to go; I took them on My arms.'
The image beautifully suggests the thought of the favorite child riding high and happy on the strong shoulder, which lifts it above rough places and miry ways. The prose reality is: My grace is sufficient for thee, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.'
The Cross carries those who carry it. They who carry God in their hearts are carried by God through all the long pilgrimage of life. Because they are thus upheld by a strength not their own, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint,' and though marches be long and limbs strained, they shall go from strength to strength till every one of them appears before God in Zion.'
