ABOUT COMPASSION & FORGIVENESS (3)

1. Compassion

a) Compassion is one of the characteristics that stands out when we read the four gospels about the life of Jesus while on this earth.  We struggle to understand how Jesus could be both 100% God and 100% man (hypostatic union) but we can identify with His humanity.

b) We read about times when Jesus was obviously very tired and wore down from traveling around from place to place with His disciples and often having large crowds follow Him.  And yet, He unwavering shows an amazing compassion for the lost, for the sick, and for the entire world.  

Matthew 9:36

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

2. About Compassion And Forgiveness

2 Corinthians 1:3-4  
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Colossians 3:12-13  

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved,  compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and,  if one has a complaint against another,  forgiving each other;  as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Titus 2:4 
And so train the young women to love their husbands and children.

James 1:27 
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself  unstained from the world.