Not long ago I received an invitation to register for my FREE 5 week Herald delivery to “Wake up every morning to something new.”
When I read that it came to my mind that I wake up already every morning to something new, namely the compassions of the LORD.
In Lamentations, that is a book in the Bible, it says:
“Because of the LORD’S great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning.” (Lamentations 3:22,23)
We are reading about the compassions of the LORD in the Bible. If someone would ask you now to define the word “compassion”, what would you answer?
The Collins English Dictionary says that compassion is “a feeling of distress and pity for the suffering or misfortune of another.”
In the Bible we are reading about the compassions of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Lord Jesus Christ had compassion for the crowds. Why? Because they were harassed. They were helpless. You find that in Matthew 9:36.
In Matthew 14:14 we are reading again about a large crowd. He had compassion for the Multitude. What did He do? He healed the sick.
In Matthew 15:32 we are reading that the Lord Jesus Christ had compassion for the hungry. Here it is physical hunger.
“Wake up every morning to something new”