COMPASSION...

By: Amy

Compassion, it’s not something that every person has, but it’s something that every person needs. However, I have come to find that the number of people that do not have compassion far outweigh those that do have it. This subject is something that I think about quite often because the Lord has blessed me with a heart full of compassion and I don’t say this with a boastful heart. Not only that, but the Lord blessed me with the best earthly role model, a Godly mother who is the most compassionate person I know.

The prompting of this post came from watching The Blind Side last night. Wow, now what a story of compassion. As I sat there watching I saw my mom and myself in the character of Sandra Bullock. I was blown away by the compassion that Mrs. Tooey (Sandra Bullock) had on Michael, a homeless boy who had a really rough background. She and her family took him in, cared for him, tended to his needs, gave him clothes, provided him with an education, believed in him, encouraged him, built him up, and gave him love like no one else had ever given him before. I saw all of this and realized wow, now how much more has God done that for us. When we were in the midst of sin, when we had nothing to give, when we felt that we weren’t worth anything, He picked us up, cleaned us off and He tended to all of our needs. Christ gave us love like no one in this world would ever be able to give us. Talk about compassion, Jesus is the definition of compassion.

For a good part of my life I have been told that I am “too nice”. To me, it’s what I’d like to define as compassion, but because it is a foreign subject to many, they don’t know what it is so they see it as being too nice. I often wonder how people can’t have compassion, especially when I look at the world around me and see hurting people everywhere. Perhaps Christ gave me such a big heart of compassion because of the great amount of compassion He had on me. Honestly, where would the world be if there weren’t people that had compassion on others? We would live in a miserable world where no one cared about anyone but themselves. Christ showed the ultimate act of compassion on us, how much more should we live to follow His example, rather than living for ourselves?