Charles Spurgeon wrote: Be it ours to remember the lovingkindness of the Lord, and to rehearse his deeds of grace. The compassion of God is tender, great, and never ending. But what about the times when it seems like God lacks compassion towards us? Today I am sharing truths to help our hearts and minds rehearse God’s deeds of grace and compassion.
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The Compassion of God
The compassion of God is a tenderness towards his people because he knows the state we are in.
The Compassion of God:
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The compassion of God is never ceasing. Lamentations 3:21-22
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The compassion of God tends to our needs. Matthew 9:36, 15:32, 20:34
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The compassion of God makes Him ready to receive us. Psalm 103:13
We must not mistake somethings as God lacking compassion.
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Consequences for sin. The Lord is quick to forgive. And has incredible compassion towards sinners who come with broken and lowly hearts to him. BUT that doesn’t always mean consequences for our sin magically disappear.
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The discipline of the Lord is also not contrary to his compassion. Spurgeon said, “His fixed purpose is not the destruction, but the instruction of his people. Wisdom hangs up the thermometer at the furnace mouth, and regulates the heat.”
God’s perspective and purpose is so much greater than we could know or understand or even want!
Wisdom from Spurgeon on Lamentations 3:21
“Memory is frequently the bond slave of despondency. Dispairing minds call to remembrance every dark foreboding in the past, and dilate upon every gloomy feature in the present; thus memory, clothed in sackcloth, presents to the mind a cup of mingled gall and wormwood. There is, however, no necessity for this. Wisdom can readily transform memory into an angel of comfort. That same recollection which in its left hand brings so many gloomy omens, may be trained to bear in its right a wealth of hopeful signs. She need not wear a crown of iron, she may encircle her brow with a fillet of gold, all spangled with stars. Thus it was in Jeremiah’s experience: in the previous verse memory had brought him to deep humiliation of soul: “My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me;” and now this same memory restored him to life and comfort. “This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.” Like a two-edged sword, his memory first killed his pride with one edge, and then slew his despair with the other. As a general principle, if we would exercise our memories more wisely, we might, in our very darkest distress, strike a match which would instantaneously kindle the lamp of comfort. There is no need for God to create a new thing upon the earth in order to restore believers to joy; if they would prayerfully rake the ashes of the past, they would find light for the present; and if they would turn to the book of truth and the throne of grace, their candle would soon shine as aforetime. Be it ours to remember the lovingkindness of the Lord, and to rehearse his deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection which is so richly illuminated with memorials of mercy, and we shall soon be happy. Thus memory may be, as Coleridge calls it, “the bosom-spring of joy,” and when the Divine Comforter bends it to his service, it may be chief among earthly comforters.” – Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
