With Great Compassion!

This is what the LORD says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances, to say to the captives, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!’ “They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill. They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.I will turn all my mountains into roads, and my highways will be raised up. See, they will come from afar— some from the north, some from the west, some from the region of Aswan. Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth; burst into song, you mountains! For the LORD comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones. But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.” “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! Isaiah 49:8-15 NIV 

No matter what happens to us--we can hold onto this unchanging truth--God will never forget us!

Politicians may forget what they say and ignore those who forged the path of their success, but God won't.

Parents may forget about what their children should mean to them, but God won't.

Older Americans suffering from dementia and Alzheimers may forget much of their life, but God won't forget one moment of their lives.

God's remembrance of us and for us is a result of His compassion for the nations. He knows all about our troubles, and He knows when we veered to the left or the right instead of staying on the path He established for us, but His compassion keeps our place with Him until we find our way back to where He would have us. Hallelujah!

Without compassion--we who believe would be lost and so would the rest of the world. It is our responsibility to be the living example of who Jesus Christ is and unless we conduct ourselves as ambassadors for Christ--the nations will be lost. We must be compassionate people--able to love and care for others--especially those who don't look like us, believe like us, or think like us.

If we can only be compassionate to those who are like-minded, what have we accomplished? Our compassion has to extend beyond our immediacy or the immediacy of those we know. They should know--who we are in Christ--and if they don't, we haven't done a good job of living the message. We must move out of our comfort zones and extend compassion without bias to all who need need it--whether we think they deserve it or not.

Think about this for a moment--and be honest with yourself--do we really deserve God's compassion? Is there anything we could have done to earn His compassion when He made the decision to leave His throne, live among us, and for us that we might have eternal life? No--there is nothing we could have done to earn His favor and compassion. He did what He did because of love--He is Love--and He will continue to shower us with compassion because He can do nothing more than He is--Love!

Without having a compassionate nature--one that sees and feels the needs of others pulling at heart strings--one cannot lead a nation into anything other than chaos and bondage. When a leader has no compassion for others, their deeds are only intended to benefit them. Remember that!