Compassion is a beautiful thing, but it rarely shows up where we would like it. Having that bad day where it starts raining half way to work and cause your running late you have to park in the boonies. On your trudge to the front door you see someone else making the trek but the have an umbrella the size of Idaho and nice and dry. You give them the pity look, but they just awkwardly smile and walk even faster in the rain and you feel like you are showing up at work in a bathing suit. One might wonder where compassion is for that person that completely drives us nuts at work. Maybe you are a Christian, maybe not. You know you should be compassionate to those that push our buttons but it is so hard to summon that emotion into action. God sent his son Jesus to teach, preach and show us how to be compassionate. Jesus teaches us to love not hate, to forgive not condemn. When in doubt, love. It can be a hard thing to do, not because loving is hard, but because our selfish flesh wants things to be fair. My Mom taught me when I was 5 that life was not fair, but that we should love all with a fair dose of love, so as you go through your day smile at strangers, share that umbrella and most importantly forgive those that hurt you even if they are not asking for forgiveness. For if we all did our part to love as much as Jesus does each and every day this would could truly be heaven on earth.
John 8:1-11
1but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 3The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 4they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say about her?" 6This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 7And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." 8And once more he bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 9But when they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 10Jesus looked up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" 11She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again."
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