Compassion is a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another’s suffering or misfortune, with the desire to ease the pain or remove its cause. Do you know any compassionate people? Those who take pity on others and are sympathetic? We all have had such feelings at one time or another. It is good, not only to share the joy of others, but their sorrows as well. Perhaps we cannot do anything to help someone who is in great pain, but there is Someone who can, so we pray to Him for them. As Christians, we are to have “compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing” (1 Peter 3:8-98Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 9Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. (1 Peter 3:8‑9)). Did you know that “it is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not”? The Bible tells us that God’s compassions “are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-2322It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:22‑23)). The early believers took joyfully the spoiling of their goods because they knew that in heaven they had a better and enduring inheritance. They also had compassion on the Apostle Paul in his imprisonment (Hebrews 10:3434For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. (Hebrews 10:34)). The loving Apostle John asked this searching question: “Whoso hath this world’s goods and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” (1 John 3:1717But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? (1 John 3:17)).
1. When a leper came and kneeled down before Him, how did the Lord feel?
Mark 1:___
2. The servant said, “Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.” Then what did the lord of that servant do? Matthew 18:___
3. How did the father feel when he saw his returning son a great way off?
Luke 15:___
4. Besides being gracious and long-suffering, how else is the Lord God described? Psalm 86:___
5. What did the Lord Jesus do for two blind men? Matthew 20:___