When it comes to Christ-like compassion, the Bible teaches us two more things. <\/p>\n
(1) Relates to the needs of others.<\/i> Paul writes, \u2018Jesus\u2026This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for He faced all of the same testings we do.\u2019<\/i> (Hebrews 4:14\u201315 NLT) Jesus understands\u2014how comforting! Whatever situation, challenge, or adversity we find ourselves in, Jesus is saying, \u2018I can relate. I\u2019ve been there.\u2019 Pressure? Rejection? Pain? Temptation? Slander? Lies? False accusations? He understands because He\u2019s been there. <\/p>\n
(2) Responds to the needs of others.<\/i> It\u2019s not enough just to recognise and relate to the needs of others. You\u2019ve been called to action on a practical level; otherwise, your compassion is meaningless. Jesus responded to sick people with healing, to hungry people with food, and to lost people with the good news of the Gospel. Compassion has no limits. It sponsors a hungry child, helps change a tyre for someone stranded on the side of the road, brings a meal to someone who\u2019s grieving, and listens patiently to someone who needs a friend. Compassion gets its hands dirty; it donates readily; it sacrifices its own agenda, schedule, desires, and dreams to meet the needs of another. <\/p>\n
The Bible says: \u2018God anointed Jesus\u2026 with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.\u2019<\/i> (Acts 10:38 NKJV) What\u2019s your main concern in life\u2014looking<\/i> good or doing<\/i> good? If you want to be more like Jesus, you already know the answer to that question!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When it comes to Christ-like compassion, the Bible teaches us two more things. (1) Relates to the needs of others. Paul writes, \u2018Jesus\u2026This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for He faced all of the same testings we do.\u2019 (Hebrews 4:14\u201315 NLT) Jesus understands\u2014how comforting! Whatever situation, challenge, or adversity we find ourselves in, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}