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Our Compassionate God Bible in a Year: Genesis 33–35 Matthew :1–20 You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes. Psalm 8.7 Today's Scripture & Insight: Psalm 8 The winter night was cold when someone threw a large stone through a Jewish ’s bedroom window. A star of David had been displayed in the window, along with a menorah to celebrate Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. In the ’s town of Billings, Montana, thousands of people—many of them believers in Jesus—responded to the hateful act with compassion. Choosing to identify with the hurt and fear of their Jewish neighbors, they pasted pictures of menorahs in their own windows. As believers in Jesus, we too receive great compassion. Our Savior humbled Himself to live among us (John 1, identifying with us. our behalf, He, “being in very nature God . . . made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant” (Philippians 2:6–7). Then, feeling as we feel and weeping as we weep, He died a cross, sacrificing His life save ours. Nothing we struggle with is beyond our Savior’s concern. If someone “throws rocks” at our lives, He comforts us. If life brings disappointments, He walks with us through despair. “Though the Lord is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly; though lofty, he sees them from afar” (Psalm 8:6). In our troubles, He preserves us, stretching out His hand against both “the anger of [our] foes”(v. 7) and our own deepest fears. Thank You, God, for Your compassionate love. Reflect & Pray In what areas of your life do you need God’s compassion? How can you show His care and love others? O God, I thank You for understanding my struggles and comforting with loving care. Remind always share Your compassion with others. 
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Sharing His compassion with others is something I struggle to do all the time, and sometimes it IS a real struggle for me. It helps when I remember His love and compassion for me when I've done wrong things. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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This painful ordeal that I have been enduring for almost seven years has made me more compassionate to those in similar pain. I pray for them daily. I would like to feel God's compassion easing my pain a bit ... It's my constant prayer, but I submit to His will because I trust in His wisdom.   Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.(Khalil Gibran)
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