Connecting with God through compassion is connecting with His heart towards His people. When you connect with God through compassion, at times, you may feel lost and isolated in a world that seems cold, blind, and careless. It is important to understand that our drive towards compassion is a powerful gift that God has given us to connect with Him and pioneer Heavenly solutions for the problems we see. This understanding leads to greater faith as we gain a deeper understanding of how much God cares for people and desires to help them. As you respond to the Lord leading you to be compassionate, ordinary moments become supernatural, coincidences become opportunities, impossibilities disappear, and your eyes are opened to the will of God each day.
Compassion is so much more than giving a warm meal or serving the less fortunate. Those are wonderful acts, but compassion also suffers with those who suffer and weeps with those who weep. Compassion means that their pain becomes our pain, and their disappointment becomes our disappointment. Compassion doesn't observe from a distance, it embraces the realities of the pain, while still representing the goodness of God. It's no wonder the Bible instructs us to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2).
Compassion changes the world. It can be easy to lose sight of how compassionate the Lord is. The book of James tells us that He is “full” of compassion. In Psalms, He is described as kind, gracious and compassionate towards all His creation. Yes, God loves mercy and justice, but He also is compassion personified. Compassion can often be described as sympathy or kindness, but the Latin root word for compassion is “Compati” which literally means “suffer with.” Meditate on that for a moment.
Compassion by definition is a verb--an action word. It’s the heart of God towards people that lead us into prayer and to world-changing action. It was compassion that God demonstrated in sending Jesus to us. “For God so loved the world that He gave...” (John 3:16). Jesus didn’t just come to be kind and sympathetic, He came to “suffer with” us and suffer for us. It was compassion that led Jesus to heal the sick, cast out demons, and carry His cross up a hill to His execution. Before feeding thousands of men and women with a small boy’s lunch, and before opening the eyes of two blind men, the Bible records that Jesus “was moved with compassion” (Matthew 9:27; 14:14)
What does this show us practically? Very simply—Godly compassion unlocks the miraculous. When we connect with God through compassion, we align our hearts with Heaven and bring its limitless possibilities to a lost and dying world. Your willingness to suffer with others, carry their burdens, and serve them is world-changing. As you move in compassion, you will connect with God deeply and receive His wisdom and grace to pioneer prophetic solutions to problems. And as people receive the compassion that God has called you to show, they encounter The Lord of compassion, who cares so deeply for them that He’s willing to suffer with them.
Psalm 86:15 — But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.
