Compelled To Be Compassionate

Compelled To Be Compassionate (Jude 22)

Jude 22, “And of some have compassion, making a difference:”

Jesus felt others hurts. He wept, He hurt, and He did something about it. He had compassion on the sick, suffering, sinful, suppressed, shattered, secluded, and un-saved. Jude 22 tells us that our compassion makes a difference in the lives of others, “and of some have compassion, making a difference”. Compassion is feeling another’s sorrows or hardships and doing what you can to help. It is not fact, but act.

Consider five things that compassion does.

1. Compassion’s Help.

The world is full of people that are hurting and many people suppose that nobody cares. The Psalmist penned the most heartbreaking words in Psalm 142:4, “I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul”. We all know of people who are in a hopeless and desperate situation. May we seek for opportunities to offer help to those that have encountered hurt. We must be constantly looking to help the hurting. The life of many suffering people has been uplifted from the visit of one who has compassion. We must always pray and seek for compassion and never allow ourselves to become calloused. Your faithful ministry of compassion will be rewarded in glory.

2. Compassion’s Healing.
As we seek the opportunity to help people, we can help bring about their spiritual healing. I am not talking about the physical nature of their healing, but the spiritual, the mental, or their physiological well-being. The Lord will open many doors to those who are committed to ministering the compassion of Christ. The healing of the secluded. In visiting lonely people, God may allow you to kindle a friendship that helps produce healing in their heart. The healing of the shattered. A visit to the physician may bring healing to a broken hand, but will it heal a broken heart? The compassionate encounters opportunities that very well could mend the broken hearted. The healing of scattered. Never give up on being compassionate to others, even if it seems that they are not responding. In ministry, we will not always see immediate results, but it is patient and enduring. The compassionate believes in the power of God’s promises and does not lose hope. Scriptures never tells us how long the prodigal was gone from home, yet when he finally returned, his father was still watching for him and ran to meet him. The healing of sinfulness. The greatest encounter we will ever have is the one that leads a lost sinner to a loving Saviour.

3. Compassion’s Hope.
The compassionate can shed hope upon the dark dreary despair that faces those he or she encounters in their everyday affairs. Our daily affairs should evolve into opportunities for our ministry. It should be taken as a blessing to offer mercy and grace to those that the world has bruised, battered, and beaten. The compassionate proclaims hope in these last days. Hope is free and abundant at the feet of our blessed Saviour, Jesus Christ. In this day of struggles and suffering, a ray of hope that shines forth from the darkness would help many a people. Divorce and defeat has entered the homes of many, however, it’s the compassionate that offers hope to the home. The leaders of our homes need a word of hope. The loved ones in our homes need a well-placed word of hope and encouragement. The home has been abused, abandoned, and abhorred by society. The home must have a friend that tenderly breathes a word of hope into the lives of those grasping for anything to help them survive.

4. Compassion’s Honor.
In Jude, we find that the writer challenges us to display compassion upon the sinner. In displaying this compassion, we could win them to Christ. The difference between heaven and hell could be the compassionate doing the right thing concerning a lost soul. It would do us well to consider the people that God places upon our path.

5. Compassion’s Heaven.
The compassionate can make a difference in the lives of many a person; namely the saint and the sinner. The compassionate has a heavenly ministry in dealing with the unconverted. The compassionate seeks and sees the guidance of God as they embraces this ministry of compassion. Every one will make a decision in this life. The decision will be made for Christ, or against Christ, but it will be made.

As we go through each day, we must remember the multitudes of people who are sick, suffering, sinful, suppressed, shattered, secluded, and un-saved. Where all other sources may fail, our Biblical compassion can make a difference in their lives. More than any other past year of ministry, I am thrilled with the opportunity that God has given His people to make a difference. May we anticipate what He will do in and through our lives!

Prayer: Lord, I desire so much to be compassionate. Use me as a vessel of compassion for a world in need. I want to be aware of those in need. Please let me see those around me that are in need of hope. Compel me to listen to them, to hear their needs. Let me be what others need, Lord. In Jesus name Amen.

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