I cheat. I can't stand to be behind but my options are quit or cheat and catch up. So after a long, long year and 1/2 last night I read the first phrase of Mark 8:2 and tears ran down my face! Yeah!! My heart's not dead!
"I have compassion for these people" (me). "Thay have been here with nothing to eat"... like me. I have been empty, dry, famished. I have collapsed on the way, this journey of walking with Jesus here on earth.
"Because some of them have come a long distance." My journey with Christ feels like I have come a long way and I wasn't going to finish strong. But God knows all about me, my struggles, my pain (physically, etc) but He has compassion for me...and you. Compassion from Webster's means "active, sym-pathetic concern for the suffering of another". His compassion was/is so great for us that He embraced the suffering of the Cross for us. Kind of puts my "suffering" into perspective...although I'm not rejoicing yet.
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