Matthew 15:30-39 KJV
30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:
31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
32 Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
33 And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
34 And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
38 And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.
39 And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.

What is compassion? Compassion is love, but it more then love, it is desire to meet the need of a person or people. It is to have love to a point of wanting to aid or help someone. If we talk only of Christ love this season of love we have to examine is compassion. The minute you have compassion for someone, you are looking for a means to help in whatever the situation presents. A little girl visiting elderly lady when she was about 6 with her family. It had been a long day and long drive for a young girl. I guess you can say the elderly lady was glad to see this family and make them feel right at home. Wanting them to stay for a meal, and rest a bit before they had to return home. Her desire to make them feel at home, was even providing the little girl with something to entertain herself as the adults talked. Her compassion went beyond just simple ediquette of entertaining guest in her home. On the table in a shining glass she kept for all company was one crystal candy jar with red peppermint candies, that little girl loved. The elderly lady had baked cookies for the children. Raisin cookies not the little girl favorite but her parents loved them. The older sibling old enough to sit without wanting to run around the house as the little girl did, patiently tried to keep her sister quiet. However the lady really wanted to take care of their meal before they left. Wanted them to stay a few extra hours to enjoy the time she had with them. It been a long time since they had last visited. Long good byes and heartbreak of doing so, because she could not hold the family a little longer beyond her heart. Her compassion and desire to do for the family even undid her finances, but every Christmas the little girl had something from the elderly lady under her tree.

Move of compassion to care for another is often out of need of another. Jesus was always moved by his heart. Does that tell you something about Jesus, we need to have the compassion of Jesus to be moved by our hearts to be able to pray for the infirmities of another, to desire the wellness and wholeness of another. To have compassion that if someone is hungry we feed them, if they need attention we give it, if that all we can give. To testify and share with about God with another. Jesus often told parables to the crowd he had compassion for. He had compassion because they followed him into place where food source was not plentiful. Where found among the people was only few a fish and seven loaves of bread. These people had followed Jesus because he often healed people and they brought their sick to him and dropped them at his feet. Yet could these seven loaves of bread and few fish really feed a crowd. This was the second record case in scripture of the crowd needing food and Jesus feed them. He was moved by their physical need not just their physical healing, or spiritual need. He was moved by their hunger and lack of food that as he tore the pieces of meat and bread it multiplied. The disciples took up seven baskets full of fragments. Jesus and his disciples would then get on a boat and go to another place.

The compassion to entertain the crowd, the compassion to heal those in need of healing, To feed the crowd that surround Jesus and his disciples. To be moved by the need of another. We have no ability to heal, but we have the ability to have compassion and to pray. A doctor with compassion is sometimes consider rare by some people. I found most medical staff to have the compassion of Job at least to one's face. It only the few that do not have compassion. Compassion in the field of knowing how to treat disease is a necessary job ettiquette. A pastor to pray for healing of another take compassion of Christ to do so in all cases. Yet the pastor job is to help a person to understand that healing is not his not done by his will, but the will of God in a person's life. That life journey during health issues can be a journey or lesson as well. It is for each individual to discover why God allowed it for a time or until death.

Do pastor's understand why some are healed and others not, probably not, but they do understand it the will of God and pastor job and our's is to show patience to help and encourage a person to seek God's will for their life. Anyone can pray for another, anyone can fast until God implies his will is in another direction can be done by any saint of God. Yet we must take God answer is his will be done to the bank and not our own will because of our compassion is not going to change one thought of God. God has the full picture, our minds are finite. When we pray, and even fast for another healing do so with the mindset of God's will in a person life. Allowing God to work it out in a person's life his way. Yet not to forget he is moved by our compassion on others. Our willingness to pray, our willingness to aid, and our willingness to help them have hope through faith in Christ Jesus. God sees it all.

Sometimes our bitterness is our worse aspect of human life, it has no compassion like Jonah sitting under the gore. God showed him compassion by giving him shade, and then took it away for him to feel the heat of the day a he looked upon the repented city of Nineveh in his not understanding why God did not destroy the city anyway. Our bitterness toward God because he did not what we thought he should of done needs to be short lived. Who are we to judge another sin or judge God for his actions. To judge the sin beyond the legal law is sin. Why do I say legal law. There are crimes commit everyday cops know about but they do nothing about. There are things government corrects that should never be corrected. Why should they even judge anything if they can not get it right. It called a legal system that suppose to work but never does because of compassion of man, who is not looking at what is probably going to happen but what he hope will not happen. What will it cost a cop, his job, his family and maybe a little more. God compassion, Christ compassion with God's correction is good enough for all.

The moving compassion in the believers heart must go without judgment as well. We can not out guess God. WE can not see all he sees down the road or how it effects others. Who would think a little girl memory of a one time between visits would impact the little girl. It is often the little things we do that bring joy to another. We might not heal the crowd, but we can have compassion on those we meet, those we see after many years, and perhaps give another hope.

Dear Heavenly Father, help us to have the compassion of Christ. To pray for others that are sick, and in need of healing, for those that just need their day to just go right instead of filled with everything going wrong. Help us to be moved by the need of others that we take action when we can to bring comfort to them. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Hebrews 4:14-16 KJV
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Jonah 4:1-11 KJV
1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?