Full of Compassion

Our Lord has compassion on us just as we are:

"[Jesus] comes into sinful lives as a bright, clear stream enters a stagnant pool. The stream is not afraid of contamination but its sweet enercy clenses the pool . . . He is always being "touched with compassion." The multitude without a shepherd, the sorrowing widow of Nain, the little dead child of the ruler, the demoniac of Gadara, the hungry five thousand - what ever suffers touches Jesus. His very wrath against the scribes and Pharisees is but the excess of His sypathy for those who suffer under their hard self-righteousness.

Did you ever find Jesus looking for "deserving poor"? He "healed all their sick." And what grace in His sympathy! Why did He touch that poor leper? He could have healed him with a word as He did the nobleman's son. why, for years the wretch had been an oucast, cut off from kin, dehumanized. He lost the sense of being a man. It was defilement to approach him. Well, the touch of Jesus made him human again."

The Scofield Reference Bible; Dr. Scofield