COMPASSION! How flawed and full of self-pity we are! May this condition in our lives fall to the ground in the name of Jesus. Suffering even passed our Lord! Innocent, sinless at no time complained! May the Lord help us to win in "silence".

Verse 8: Ah! If God would give me what I'm asking for! Ah! if God answered my prayer! GOD is so wonderful that he doesn't answer our "foolish" requests in times of distress! HE meets our "real needs" and not "spoiled childish nonsense". Verse 11: Where are my strength to endure? Why live when there is no hope? I thank God every day for the gift of life, for the breath of life of the Lord that still dwells in me. Praise and exaltation be the name of the Lord forever and ever. Verses 14 to 23 “A desperate person deserves the compassion of his friends, even if he has ceased to fear Almighty God. But I couldn't count on you, my friends, who disappointed me like a stream that dries up in the summer. First it is full of ice and snow, but then it becomes water, which fades in the heat, until at the end its bed is dry and hard. Caravans are lost in search of water; they advance through the desert and die there. Those who come from Temá and Saba look for these riverside people, full of hope, but when they arrive, everyone is disappointed, and their hope dies there. You are like these riverside people; you see my misery and are afraid. Did I happen to ask you to give me anything? Or to be offered a gift? Did I ask them to save me from an enemy or to free me from the hands of the bandits? COMPASSION, do we know the meaning of that word? Have we exercised compassion for our neighbors? Or do we always have a "sermon", or a "ready formula"? Why not "listen" and "pray" with the person asking the Lord (who can and can see everything), the real solution? COMPASSION: Human disposition that fuels acts of kindness and mercy. It is a form of love, it is awakened within us when we are confronted with those who suffer or are vulnerable. The Hebrew (hamal) and Greek (splanchnisomai) words, sometimes translated as "compassion" also have a broader meaning, such as "showing pity", and showing mercy. Other synonyms close to compassion in English are "to be loved by", "to show concern for", "to be compassionate" and "to act kindly". (Transcribed, source: bibliotecabiblica.blogspot.com) So ... have we been like Job's friends? Dry riversides, filled with ice, snow that turns into water and dries up in the "heat"? When someone close to us most needs our support and prayers, are we cold and indifferent? Where is the love we preach so much ?? Is that "being doers of the Word?" I am reflecting on this text, if you find it convenient, do the same. May the Lord help us. God bless his day.


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