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3961 entries for this category: Love and the Holy Spirit is what I would be asking for. When I get this thing I am in the right track to the kingdom of God where I could have all that I want. Compasion for me has two applications. With regards to God, His nature is compassion. He has perfect knowledge of His creation, His people. He is all knowing, and everywhere at the same time. He feels and experiences the hurts, pains, and sufferings others go through without having to experience it Himself, but He choses to suffer with us, by becoming man in the for of Jesus, in order to show His love for us; to show that we have a God that is willing to suffer and has suffered with His people. Compassion, the deep feeling and understanding of another and what they have been through without judgement and criticism; understanding anothers situation and context, moves one to act, to help ease the other's pain and suffering. It is not true compassion unless it moves one to do something about the suffering to ease/lessen it, otherwise it is just empathy/sympathy. Compassion, when it comes to humans, can only be experienced if we have been in the same position ourselves, when we have suffered in the same way as someone else. We only have understanding of our own situation, beliefs, values, experiences and cannot know or understand another's, if it is different than our own. We have bias and assumptions about the way things should be and are and when it comes out differently, we find it difficult to understand or accept as real. It doesn't fit what we know as truth. We have imperfect/limited knowledge and eyesight because we only understand imperfectly what we have been exposed to in the past, and even that is misinterpreted and unreliable. So the only way for humans to gain compassion is to suffer themselves, and the only way we know how to help ease it is to go through it ourselves and see what had worked for us. Although suffering is hard and unwanted, it builds in us the character of compassion for people across cultural, class, racial, religious, etc barriers. It breeds in us the love for others.
Since God is such a generous giver, what is there that you (personally) should be asking Him for? ![]()
By: Allen Yong
Category: Ask, Seek, Knock
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By: Kim Tran
Category: Compassionate - Helping the Hurting
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