"Jesus had compassion"

The world is broken, I am broken, you are broken. We are all broken and hurting. You just need to look around - the teenager burdened with depression, the woman with an empty womb, the person burdened by the alcoholic, the young woman who has lost her mother, the person struggling in their marriage, the crime, the hate, the pain. We all have secrets or guilt or shame or lies or stories we prefer to hide in the dark cupboards of our hearts.


So what is the answer? When I was younger I would pray for the solution, ie health, a job, a marriage, a child etc. But as I grow older I wander if the answer is not the solution, but to find God in the pain. Before healing Jesus had compassion.

Mat 20:34 "So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him." Wow!!! Jesus had compassion. The Bible also speaks of how Jesus was moved by compassion (see Matt 14:14).

I don't know what you are going through... I know this life is hard, and in a sense its meant to be since we were made for more than this (aka heaven). I know we have a choice concerning the brokenness we see and experience, we can harden our hearts or we can choose compassion as our loving saviour did.

God bless you with eyes to see and be moved by compassion.

May the Lord keep you in His loving arms.

May He make His face shine upon you in this uncertain world. And may He give you peace in spite of the storms.