“Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. "I am willing," he said. ‘Be clean!’” – Mark 1:41
Thomas G. Long, in his book “Whispering the Lyrics,” writes about a man named Jack Casey, who worked as a member of an ambulance rescue squad. “When he was a child, Jack had oral surgery – five teeth pulled. The little guy was terrified. What he remembered most, though, was the operating room nurse who recognized the boy’s terror and said, “Don’t worry, I’ll be right here beside you no matter what happens.” When Jack woke up after the surgery, she kept her word and was standing right there next to him.
Jack’s ambulance team is called out to an accident twenty years later. A truck has overturned, the driver is pinned in the cab, and they’re using power tools to cut him out of the cab. But gasoline is leaking everywhere, and the driver is terrified it’s going to catch fire and incinerate him. So Jack crawls into the cab next to him and says, “Look, don’t worry, I’m right here with you; I’m not going anywhere.” And Jack stayed with the man until they removed him from the wreckage.
Later, the truck driver told Jack, “You were an idiot; you know that the whole thing could have exploded, and we’d both (have died)!” Jack told him that he just couldn’t leave him.”
Just as Christ is compassionate with us, we need to show compassion to others. Today, in prayer, thank Jesus that He is our example of compassion and then be compassionate to others.
"I have long since ceased to pray, 'Lord Jesus, have compassion on a lost world!' I remember the day and the hour when I seemed to hear the Lord rebuking me for making such a prayer. He seemed to say to me, 'I have had compassion upon a lost world, and now it is for you to have compassion.'" - A.J. Gordon
God’s Word: “Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” – Colossians 3:12
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