Month: October 2004

If your child were to die right now would you:

A) Curse God and wonder why He would allow this to happen
B) Cry “Why Me” and fall into depression
C) Miss them dearly, yet rejoice that they are in heaven
D) Pray in faith that they be raised from the dead

How “compassionate” is it to try and make someone feel “ok” about being sick or “learn to cope”.

Wouldn’t it be more compassionate to see the person healed and freed from the bondage of sickness. Isn’t living in health a more preferable condition?

Look in the bible for instances where Jesus had compassion on the people. How did He demonstrate this compassion?

Did He pat people on the back and sit in on their pity party?

No, He did something about thier situation.

Mat 9:35 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. Mat 9:36 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.

Mat 14:14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.

Mat 20:34 So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

Mar 1:40 And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Mar 1:41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
Mar 1:42 And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.

Mar 6:34 And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.

See Also:
Mark 5:1-20, Mark 8:1-8, Matthew 15:3–38, Luke 7:12-15

Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

– It’s not our problems that make use feel a certain way, it is what we think of them that makes us feel that way.

– All too often we look for something that gives us a “tingle in the flesh” to distract us from what is really bothering us.

– We look out to someone else expecting them to fill the void but then we are disappointed when they don’t.

– It really isn’t the other person that makes us feel a certain way, it is what we think about them that makes us fell one way or another.