Great Compassion!

Posted on May 15, 2009 by rsekhose

Your compassion is great, O LORD; preserve my life according to your laws

Psalm 119:156

God’s compassion is great. His compassion preserves us when we keep His laws

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Compassion come!

Posted on May 15, 2009 by rsekhose

Let your compassion come to me that I may live, for your law is my delight

Psalm 119:77

When God’s law is our delight we can expect compassion from Him.

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God of Abundant Compassion

Posted on May 15, 2009 by rsekhose

The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.

Psalm 116:5

God is not stingy with His compassion like so many people. He is very generous in having compassion with us.

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Men of compassion

Posted on May 15, 2009 by rsekhose

Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man.

Psalm 112:4

We are to be men of compassion. An upright man is a compassionate man.

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Compassion as a Father

Posted on May 15, 2009 by rsekhose

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;

Psalm 103:13

The first requirement to receive compassion from God the Father is to fear Him. Fearing God is refusing evil in our lives. We have to be like Joseph who told Potiphar’s wife, “How can I do this great evil before God?” That is the fear of God – refusing to do evil.

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Delivered because of His Compassion

Posted on May 14, 2009 by rsekhose

But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight. Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you heard from heaven, and in your compassion you delivered them time after time

Nehemiah 9:28

God is very patient in being compassionate to us. Though we fail Him time after time and get into trouble, His compassion causes Him to reach out to us and deliver us.
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The Benefit of Sympathy

Posted on May 14, 2009 by rsekhose

Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 69:20

Sympathy is closely linked with compassion. Some people regard sympathy as of no benefit. And in due course they throw away compassion too. Sympathy is conveying our feelings of understanding pain and hardship of the other person to him. In many ways sympathy is beneficial.

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No Mere Men

Posted on May 14, 2009 by rsekhose

You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men?

1 Corinthians 3:3

To be jealous of others is to be worldly. We are not called to be mere men. We are to be different because of the power of the Holy Spirit in us.

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Filled with Jealousy

Posted on May 14, 2009 by rsekhose

When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and talked abusively against what Paul was saying.

Acts 13:45

Jealousy is a feeling of fear of losing what one has to a rival. The feeling provokes action which tries to restore things as they were before.

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Jealousy More Dangerous Than Anger

Posted on May 14, 2009 by rsekhose

Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Proverbs 27:4

Jealousy is difficult to confront unlike anger and fury. Jealousy is a simmering tension that when it erupts fully causes great harm to others.

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