Compassion 01: What’s it Mean?
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Compassion 01: What’s it Mean?
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Psalm 40:11
You, Lord, will not withhold
Your compassion from me;
Your mercy and your truth
will continually watch over
me.
In Hebrew, the word for compassion is: raham. 30 times it’s used for the word Mercy but four times like in this psalm it’s used for the word compassion and then another four times it’s used in the Bible for the word “womb.”
What’s the difference between mercy and compassion? Compassion is that kind of Mercy that actually moves you to action. It requires that we make a choice beyond ourselves when we see someone else suffering, and decide to join them in that suffering. It’s what Christ did for us on the cross and yet we sometimes don’t even have that same kindness for our own hearts, let alone that kindness when we see someone else suffering.
In this case, the psalmist is referring to his own wretchedness ; The things that have kept him, and should keep him, far away from God. But he recognizes how sweet and loving and caring God is — he knows God has compassion for him and he stands confident in that. May you too be confident that the Lord has compassion over you and so we should have that same compassion over others, today.
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