Compassion on All

 The act of compassion is very important in life, it is relating to people where they are at, in other words, feeling their pain then being willing to alleviate it in some way!!  It is not just saying, “I feel your pain,” but it is a willingness to act on their behalf.  You may relate this to a health care worker who is willing to get their hands dirty, one that actually cares, and are truly making a difference in people’s lives.  Take the nurses and doctors, for instance, who are taking care of COVID patients that have literally put their lives on the line because the word compassion truly means something to them.  

You can show compassion in many ways, being willing to do things for people to help them or building them up with kind and encouraging words. It just takes a person that is willing to use the gifts that God has given them.  You might be surprised at what you can do to show compassion towards someone.  Something as small as holding a door for someone or just giving someone a great big smile or just being friendly.  Maybe helping with their snow in the winter or mowing their lawn in the summer or other odd jobs.  Like I said you can show compassion in many ways!!

This can also be called loving your neighbor as yourself.  Loving someone and having compassion on them are sort of intertwined and both are very important and are like a double blessing that crisscross one another!!  Jesus talked about this while talking to a man when he walked the earth  many years ago in Luke 10: 27 please read,  “And he replied, ‘You shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.’”   

So, if we will all take all this to heart and do these things, we will be like a walking Bible.

Please reads Ephesians 4:32, “Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving each other just as God in Messiah also forgave you.”           

2 Corinthians 1:3-4, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, the Father of compassion and God of all encouragement. He encourages us in every trouble, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in any trouble, through the very encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.”

1 Peter 3:8-9, “Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, tenderhearted, humble-minded. Do not repay evil for evil or insult for insult, but give a blessing instead—it is for this reason you were called, so that you might inherit a blessing.”

My prayer is that all who hear this or read it will be blessed, encouraged and helped and that you and yours will have a blessed day.