Compassion From Our Current Location

Moved with compassion … He had compassion on them … His heart overflowed with compassion … (Matthew 9:35; Mark 1:41; Luke 7:13—as a few examples)

Jesus showed compassion on crippled people, blind people, and lepers in need of healing, He showed compassion to the woman at the well who yearned for acceptance or the woman caught in adultery that needed forgiveness.

One option when looking up directions on your smartphone is to “USE CURRENT LOCATION” as the starting point. “Use Current Location” is an excellent description of how Jesus expects us to live our compassion. He wants us to start right at our CURRENT LOCATION. Jesus doesn’t want us to get ‘more spiritual’ and then show compassion. Jesus expects us to show compassion from our CURRENT LOCATION, to show compassion now, right where we live, work, and play. He doesn’t want us only to give our money to someone else or an organization that can show compassion for us. He wants compassion from us in our CURRENT LOCATION.

Who in your CURRENT LOCATION needs to be accepted just as they are, needs a friend, needs you to be praying for them, needs a helping hand, or someone to lean on?

Jesus, give us eyes to see the needs in our CURRENT LOCATION! Amen.