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




3-1-2019