Compassion...

Webster defines Compassion as:

to suffer, deep sympathy: pity

 

It's goes beyond the simple..."Oh I'm so sorry," or "Poor thing."

It feels deep within, sorrow and pain.

When you have deep sympathy for someone, you don't just think of them once or twice in a day. Your thoughts are continually on the them...not letting up, until there is an answer or relief!

 

Jesus had Deep Compassion for us (His Creation) that day in the garden. His love and Compassion for us made Him drink that cup of sin.

 

A cup full of lust, lies, deceit, anger, hate, envy, jealousy, murder, rape...the sins of all humanity ever committed in that cup. He drew all corruption and iniquity of our sins into His own life that day.

 

He did it for you and I and for Peter, James and John who fell asleep in the garden when they were to be praying.

He looked passed them and saw me asleep, ignorant of the forces against my soul.

 

He saw the horror of my destiny, my sufferings, filthy pride, love of the world, and my secret sins...He loved me and you so much and had Great Compassion on us that day that He drank that loathsome cup.

 

And we repay Him by Spiritually Sleeping!! Ignoring the ones around us in great need...in need of "Our Compassion."

God help us be more like you...to have Compassion for our unsaved family, sometimes we are harder on them then we should be...expect more, and who are we?

 

God help us be more like you...to have Compassion for our neighbors, people in our community, the woman on the corner, the man pushing his shopping cart filled with his belongings, the single mother, the widowed, the drunk man begging for money...

 

We need to put ourselves in their shoes often, to remind us where God has brought us from!

Remember we are not perfect in anyway...we are only made perfect through Him.

 

Jude 1:22 reads...

And some have compassion, making a difference.

 

~Shelly'e