GOD'S WORD DAILY

VOLUME 1, ISSUE 55 SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

HOW JESUS LOVED, Part 10
WORD OF THE DAY:"COMPASSIONATE"

Scripture reference: Matthew 9:35,36:

     "And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching
     in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the
     kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease
     among the people.

     But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion
     on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad,
     as sheep having no shepherd."

moved with compassion = "to have the bowels yearn, i.e. (figuratively) feel sympathy,
to pity:--have (be moved with) compassion." (from the PowerBibleCD)

According to the records in the Gospels, whenever Jesus was moved with compassion, it was not just
a sympathetic, heart tugging emotional thing. Whenever he was moved with compassion, Jesus DID
something about the situation, bringing God's deliverance to the people involved.

Without going into all the verses here, I just want to mention the results of his compassion.
He taught them many things (Mark 6:34), He fed the multitudes (Mark 8:2-9), He healed the
blind (Matthew 20:34), He touched the untouchable and cleansed the leprous (Mark 1:40-42),
He sent out laborers to reap the harvest (Matthew 9:36-38, 10:1, 5), He healed their sick
(Matthew 14:14) and He raised the widow's only son from the dead (Luke 7:11-15).

In one of the Books of the Bible that are written to us, in the church Epistles, we are
commanded to put on this same kind of compassion.

Colossians 3:12

"Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved,
bowels of mercies.

I John 3:17

     "But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother
     have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion
     from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

By this will people know that we are His disciples, if we have love one toward another.

Let us put on compassion, bringing to the people God's solution.

-Carol Kenreigh

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