“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.” John 3:16-17.
“The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth.” Exodus 34:6.
The LORD’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God says:
The compassion reaction. I react to you with compassion. I never reject anyone who comes to Me. I react with compassion. When Jesus looked at the crowds on the hillside or the sinner that approached Him, I tell you that He had compassion for them. He forgave, He taught, and He healed. I Myself will shepherd My sheep and gather the lambs in My arms—to deliver, to nurture, to lead and guide, to heal, to protect, to provide for, and to bless. I told Peter to feed and tend My sheep, not to beat them. The moment Moses got so angry and bitter at My people that he called them “rebels” and hit the rock instead of speaking to it and gave them no hope of My compassion, I had to remove him from leadership.
Who does My Will? The one who treats others with compassion. That was what the parable of the Good Samaritan that My Son told was all about. And compassion is not just sympathy, it is coming down and bearing the other’s burden to set them free and raise them up. It is meeting another’s needs with what is your own. It is sharing the burden, taking it, and lifting the burden off the other’s back. It is lifting the burden and destroying the yoke of slavery.
When the children of Israel went into slavery in Egypt, they at first did not call on Me. They had turned to the gods of Egypt over the years, for like the Pharaoh’s they also no longer thought of Joseph. But when that did not work for them, they remembered Me. And they cried to Me. And their cry came unto Me. I came to talk to Moses in the burning bush on Mt. Horeb (Mt. Sinai). I told him that I had seen the affliction of My people, I had given heed to their cry to Me, I was well aware of what they were going through, so I had come down to deliver them—and not only to deliver them out of slavery and bondage but to bring them up from that place of slavery and oppression to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey. In other words, to a place of freedom and prosperity where I would bless them beyond all they could ask or imagine. Exodus 3:7-8.
But then I told Moses how I was going to accomplish this in the earth. I was going to do it with him. “Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.” Exodus 3:10. Moses, looking at his 80-year-old self and not thinking of himself as an orator, knew he could not do that. But My answer was simple, “I will certainly be with you.” Exodus 3:12. And that was enough. Together we saved the people and broke the yoke of slavery.
A later I told Joshua the same thing. He would lead the people in and conquer the Promised Land. How? By My Word and My presence with Him. I said to him, “Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, I have given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory. No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous, for you shall give this people possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go. This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:2-9.
At the time of Gideon in the period when judges ruled Israel, I did the same. The people of Israel did what was evil in My sight and turned to other gods, so they became easy prey for the people of Midian, who took their harvests and oppressed them for seven years. Israel was brought very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel remembered Me and cried to Me. Judges 6:1-6. And My reaction was compassion. I came down and spoke to a man named Gideon. He was acting like a defeated coward and he was blaming Me for the oppression, but I was not angry, I had compassion for My enslaved people, so I greeted Gideon as he truly was in My sight, a champion with the strength of an army, “The LORD is with you, O valiant warrior.” Judges 6:12. He thought I must be talking to someone else. But I then told him, “Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?” Judges 6:14. But he said to Me, “O Lord, how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.” But I said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat Midian as one man.” Judges 6:15-17. And so it came to pass. Gideon decided to go with My plan for his life and came out victorious. He led the people back to Me.
When My people cried to Me in their straits, in My compassion I would never leave them in the mess they had gotten themselves into, or others had put them in, but I would come and find someone who would work with Me to save the people. But the major root of the whole dilemma no man could save you out of. And that was the slavery of sin and death that Adam had put himself and all his descendants (seed) into by giving over his dominion authority of the earth to the devil in disobedience and defiance of My Word and My ultimate authority. He had murdered the eternal life in himself and all his descendants by aligning himself with evil, the realm of darkness and death, the kingdom of Satan, and Satan himself. He had been adopted by the devil and severed himself from his true Father.
The devil was a murderer from the beginning and a liar and the father of lies and all who are his become just like him and get his judgment. Which is eternal separation from Me in hell.
So no one descended from Adam’s seed, which became corruptible and subject to death, had an eternal life to give in payment to save you from your sentence of eternal death. “Dust you are and to dust you shall return.”
So how could My compassion justly save you from the place where you were trapped, chained, and adopted in? I had to come down and save you Myself.
“Now the LORD saw, and it was displeasing in His sight that there was no justice. And He saw that there was no man and was astonished that there was no one to intercede. Then His own arm brought salvation to Him, and His righteousness upheld Him.” Isaiah 59:15-16.I had to send My Word, the incorruptible seed with eternal life in it, to become man and then give His eternal life for the one you lost, for being born of the incorruptible seed of My Word in a virgin’s womb with no seed of Adam involved to corrupt the flesh so that even in his mortal body, like the first Adam before he sinned, He had an eternal life in the flesh that he could give as propitiation for all to justly satisfy the condemnation that was on all due to Adam’s sin. “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:17-21. The night in Gethsemane when Jesus accepted My Will and took all your sins as His own though He had never sinned in the flesh, He became subject to death, for the wages of sin is death. And the next day He died, taking your sentence of condemnation on Himself, and I accepted His payment of His eternal life in the flesh as more than enough in satisfaction of divine justice, and you were freed from the slavery of sin and death to the promise of abundant eternal life.
Jesus is My compassion reaction. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.” John 3:16.
In Jesus, I came down to save you like no one else could. He Himself bore your diseases, ills, pains, griefs and sorrows. He Himself carried them for you. He Himself was pierced through for your transgressions, and He Himself was crushed for your iniquities. The chastening for your well-being (shalom) fell upon Him, and by His scourging you are healed. All of you like sheep have gone astray, each of you has turned to his own way; but I caused the iniquity of you all to fall on Him. Isaiah 53:4-6. There is no condemnation now for those who are in Christ Jesus.
In Jesus I came down. He is My arm by which I embraced you to My bosom. Isaiah 52:10, Isaiah 53:1, John 1:18, John 14:3; John 10:10. And no one who comes to Him will He ever reject.
I love you and that is why I gave you Jesus. He is My compassion reaction to all that binds you, oppresses you, defeats you, or depletes you. And His Name that I gave Him tells you that: Jesus, which in Hebrew is Yeshuah, which means salvation. He is salvation in every situation. I did not send Him to judge and condemn you but to SAVE you. But you must accept and receive your pardon and all that goes with it or you will stay in your sins and sentence of condemnation. If you have not, receive Him now and become a new creation in Christ.
For the LORD your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them. Deuteronomy 4:31.
But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Titus 3:4-7.