Monday, July 20, 2009

COMPASSION: ANSWER FOR THE HARD LIFE

Life Is Hard! A couple went to attend the wedding of a family member. Relatives had flown in from across the United States, but somewhere between the rehearsal dinner on Friday and the wedding on Saturday the groom and the bride-to-be called the whole thing off. Another man, a father, in great anguish shared how his daughter was planning on marrying a young man that he and his wife vehemently disapproved of and how there was nothing they could do to stop her. Finally, a young woman, a mother of twins and pregnant with a third, went to run some errands only to return home to find that her husband had hanged himself.

Life Is Hard! But Jesus knows that because in Matthew it says that "Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd."

Dear God give me that kind of compassion!

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