The Gospels speak many
times of Jesus Christ being filled with compassion. Have you ever noticed how Jesus
loved as He lived and died? He was the unfathomable love of God fleshed out in
living vibrancy and favor. As Jesus walked and taught and lived ... He was God.
He saw with the eyes of God that are all knowing and felt with a compassionate
love eternally steadfastly set … on redeeming and healing, the helpless and
hopeless. Finally He gracefully gave more than could be impossibly imagined.
He lived out in the
years of His ministry what was to come in full reconciliation through His
sacrificial death and life empowering resurrection. His life was love in
action, deed, healing, feeding, touching, soothing, comforting, giving life
again (raising the dead), and real hope to the hopeless. At times we become
desensitized as we read about the many encounters Jesus had with those around
Him when He lived on the earth. We see
them in one dimension as if they were just a disease or problem that Jesus
noticed and dealt with. Their lives were
multifaceted as ours are, with stresses and difficulties as well as joys and
blessings.
Then again … we tend
to forget how He loves us, soothes us, comforts us and beings us joy, hope and
peace even when we are wandering around looking everywhere else, but to the One
that beings light and life. If we really
take time to reflect and remember … We would only say ..."Thank God for
this gift too wonderful for words!" (2 Cor. 9:15 NLT)
Just now, take time to
reflect and remember and whisper a prayer of thanks.
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