With Love and Compassion. We Show Jesus to All Those We Meet
In whom we are. By what we do. We show the love of Jesus onto the lives of others.
Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth, and your heart for love. (Anonymous)
Compassion is at the heart of every little thing we do. It is the dearest quality we possess. Yet all too often it can be cast aside with consequences too tragic to speak of. To lose our compassion, we lose what it is to be human. (Anonymous)
Introduction. As true and faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. We treat others with genuine love and tender affection and sweet kindness.
Scripture Reading: Marks of the True Christian
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor. (Mark 12:9–10, RSV)
What God’s Holy Word demands of all believers. Is that we love others with the tender and sincere affection of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Do you see the tender and heartfelt affection of Jesus? As you walk the dusty roads of Galilee with Him. As you read of His love for others in His Gospels. Such sweet, pure and tender affection our Lord gives to all. His tenderness is showered upon each and every person.
Jesus’ humility and tender affection. We imitate in our daily life.
Scripture Reading: And being found in human form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (Philippians 2:8, ESV)
Saint Matthew in chapter eleven, tells us that out Lord has a humble and tender heart. We once again look to our Lord as our living example. Jesus shows to you and me. The divine and ultimate way to be honestly humble. Our Lord loves others with true kindness. Jesus touches the hearts of others with His tender affection and sweet compassion.
You and I as faithful believers in and obedient followers of Jesus. Follow each day His perfect and loving example.
True humility is such an important trait in our service for Jesus. Obedient and loving humility is not a sign of weakness. Quite the contrary. When we picture Jesus humbling Himself to the point of death. Even to His cruel and wicked death on His cross.
You and me. All the people of the world see strength beyond our understanding. Divine, supreme and Sovereign strength. For we always recall. Through all Christ’s torture, humiliation, crucifixion and separation on His cross from His beloved Father. And, yes, ultimately Christ’s sacrificial death.
Jesus our Lord. Not for one milli-second stopped being God.
Christ Jesus is God the Son. As such He could have at any moment used His supreme and Almighty power. Our Lord could have called on His Heavenly and obedient angels. Summoned His Heavenly beings in countless numbers to rescue and to save Him. Jesus our Lord, our Savior, our God chose to die in our stead. This is the strength. Not the weakness of divine and Sovereign loving humility.
Scripture Reading: Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. (Philippians 2:3, ESV)
When you and I read Saint Paul’s words of instruction on pure humility. We bow our heads in a prayer to God of thanksgiving. For the sacrifice Christ paid on our behalf. In a sign of love, we pray we will never have to pay such a high price. A prayer of thanksgiving. For we are saved. We serve Jesus not out of ambition or for earthly recognition. But with a true humble heart. Following the wonderful and loving example of Jesus.
Jesus’ love for others was a combination of humility and tender affection and sweet compassion.
God’s Holy Word, God’s Love Story. Is our lesson manual where we turn to for examples of Jesus’ compassion. When our Lord needed His beloved Apostle the most. Peter denied Him. Not once, not twice but three times.
Jesus the Lord and God of Saint Peter. Showed to His beloved Apostle. Boundless compassion. Christ washed away Peter’s betrayal. With the love of God. JESUS FORGAVE HIM.
Scripture Reading: Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” Peter said to Him, “Even if I must die with You, I will not deny You!” (Matthew 26:34–35, ESV)
The Samaritan woman at the well. The woman outcast by her own society. Jesus wept with her and showed to her the love of God. Jesus gave to this outcast woman His sweet compassion. Christ accepted her into His open and loving heart. This lesson, this parable of Jesus is to be found in John chapter four.
For me one way of understanding Jesus’ compassionate heart. Is to fully accept Jesus as a man. Through His life on Earth. Christ lived and suffered as you and I do. There is nothing we will ever go through. Our Lord does not totally understand.
Scripture Readings: And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14, ESV)
But emptied Himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. (Philippians 2:7, ESV)
When we are angry. We recall Jesus’ anger in the Jewish temple. A difference of course. Jesus’ anger was divine. Is ours??? When you and I suffer physical pain. It is nothing in comparison to the agony which Christ on His cross endured.
Scripture Readings: And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.” (Matthew 21:12–13, ESV)
When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified Him there, along with the criminals — one on His right, the other on His left. (Luke 26:33, ESV)
Jesus’ compassion is gained through experience and understanding. As we help another person in the name and the love of Jesus. You and I put ourselves in their place. We use our past experiences to help her. With the help and strength of God the Holy Spirit. Jesus’ sweet compassion will ease her pain and suffering.
With time and patience and her permission. We turn to God’s Holy Word for strength and comfort. We together usher to God a prayer.
Conclusion. With Love and Compassion. We Show Jesus to All Those We Meet. In whom we are. By what we do. We show the love of Jesus onto the lives of others.
- As true and faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. We treat others with genuine love and tender affection and sweet kindness.
- Jesus’ humility and tender affection. We imitate in our daily life.
- Jesus our Lord. Not for one milli-second stopped being God.
- Jesus’ love for others was a combination of humility and tender affection and sweet compassion.
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