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”

Matthew 20:34 tells us that the Lord had compassion on two blind men. We read there that “they received their sight and followed him.”

In Mark 1:41 we have the account of a man with leprosy. The Lord said “Be clean!” and the man was cured from his leprosy.

So far I have not acted on the invitation to register for my FREE 5 week Herald delivery, but I am endeavouring to read the Bible every day and find out more about the compassions of the LORD, which are new every morning.

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HARAKEKE – FLAX

“Better never to have been born at all, than never to have been born again.” – Unknown writer

“When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul.” – Psalm 94:19

TIME

Today is the shortest day here in New Zealand. We are having 552 minutes daylight.

My last move is to a place without …

I moved from place to place in Germany, in Thailand and in New Zealand. I am talking here about places where I lived for quite some time.

But my last move is to a place

without death,

“We are moving soon”

without tears,

without sorrow,

without crying,

without pain,

without hunger

without thirst and

without night or darkness.

My last move is to a perfect place! Please come with me!