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 and 4-19-20-2021