A GOD OF COMPASSION

A GOD OF COMPASSION (The GOD who ALWAYS FORGIVES-and- ALWAYS LOVES) Do you know That we worship A God of COMPASSION? A God who ALWAYS cares for us A God who Always forgives us A God who Always LOVES US That is NOT the human way- The human way Is to love upon condition The condition of our actions “Who is there like you The God who REMOVES guilt And pardons sin For the remnant Of his inheritance Who does not persist In anger forever But DELIGHTS rather in clemency And will again Have COMPASSION on us Treading underfoot our guilt” Micah 7:18-19 The psalmist contradicts The CHARACTER between OUR GOD- The God of LOVE & COMPASSION And the pagan gods of his time The pagan gods ARE the gods Of anger-the gods of cruel And exacting punishment NOT LIKE our God Who is the God of RESTORATION- Forgiveness-and the REDEMPTION of humanity “Israel-put your hope In the Lord For with the Lord Is UNFAILING LOVE And with him Is FULL REDEMPTION” Psalm 130:7 And isn't that TRUE Of us Christians Here in America too A nation That has its own FALSE gods too OUR vices-our addictions- Our sexual drives-our materialism And who knows what else These short-term gods Who can-NEVER love us back And OUR real God- The God of love-our REDEEMER Jesus Christ- Never lacks love-forgiveness-or COMPASSION God and Jesus REDEEM our lives “But God will REDEEM ME From the realm Of the dead He will SURELY take me To himself” Psalm 49:15 But our God Is the God of compassion He will always take us back He will always LOVE US- REDEEM US-and FEEL compassion For us “As a father Has COMPASSION on his children So the Lord has compassion On those who fear him” Psalm 103:13 “PRAISE be to the God And Father of our Lord Jesus Christ The Father of Compassion- And the God of ALL comfort Who comforts us In all our troubles........” 2 Corinthians 1:3 UNLIKE the pagan gods- The gods of short-term comfort Our God The God of love-forgiveness And compassion ALWAYS loves us back And always saves and REDEEMS US In Jesus' name Robert P. Wallman 7-18-16 Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Jessica Mesman Griffith