COMPASSION

Luke 7:11-15
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust.

Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son

11 Soon afterward Jesus went with his disciples to the village of Nain, and a large crowd followed him. 12 A funeral procession was coming out as he approached the village gate. The young man who had died was a widow’s only son, and a large crowd from the village was with her. 13 When the Lord saw her, his heart overflowed with compassion. “Don’t cry!” he said. 14 Then he walked over to the coffin and touched it, and the bearers stopped. “Young man,” he said, “I tell you, get up.” 15 Then the dead boy sat up and began to talk! And Jesus gave him back to his mother.


I watch C.S.I. Miami reruns. On an episode I watched this week, Horatio Caine is at the scene of a murder involving a young lady with a very shady background. He is quick to remind the officers at the scene that despite her shady past, the victim was still someone’s daughter. This week, we have been flooded with celebrity images of Michael and Farrah … someone’s son … someone’s daughter.

“When the Lord saw her (the mother), his heart overflowed with compassion.”

Jesus was a man of compassion. His heart was broken when He encountered the broken-hearted. As we follow Christ, do we have that level of compassion. Are we hard-hearted or broken-hearted?