Compassion
Did you ever dream of being more like God? Well, there is a way for you and me and it is the only way. To be compassionate as our Heavenly Father is compassionate. I am always marvelling at Jesus in action in the Gospels. He is entirely devoted to people who need help. He can’t pass them by or turn a blind eye to them. He does what he can for them and identifies himself with their poverty and need. He refuses to tolerate unjust and inhuman systems. A story comes to my mind. Two men were racing to catch a train in another part of the world. The street was full of poor fruit dealers trying to sell their produce. The men in their haste to catch their train knocked over the stall of a young boy who watched in consternation as his fruit went flying all over the street. One man continued running for the train regardless of what had happened. The other bent down picked up the damaged fruit wherever it had scattered, then opened ...