Monday, February 14, 2011

With Compassion

It was yesteday during gospel Docteine tha discovered for myself a wonderful truth.

The lesson was:
"Lesson 7: “[He] Took Our Infirmities, and Bare Our Sicknesses”," New Testament Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual, (2002)


As we read about miracles that Christ preformed we read Mark 1:40-42


And there came a aleper to him, beseeching him,
and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him,
If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

And Jesus, moved with compassion,
put forth his hand, and touched him,
and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.

And as soon as he had spoken,
immediately the leprosy departed from him,
and he was cleansed.

This term "moved with compassion" struck me in he moment and I decided to look up the definition of cmpassion on my phone (yep right there in Sunday School, I am a rebel)

Compassion (from Latin: "co-suffering")

Hold on folks did you see what I see?

Christ was moved to co-suffer with th leper in order to heal him. Christ as our Savior suffers along with us inorde to heal. He is not detached on a throne observing but at an intmate distace so much that He is co-suffers all.

One more note for those who are interested.
PonderMark 5:25-34 and the concept of co-suffering.
What does it mean to hae compassion on your fellowman?

1 comments:

Heather said...

that is pretty incredible. Thank you for the insight