A Compassionate God

“And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick” (Matthew 14:14, NKJV).

 A Compassionate God

Question: What is God's attitude towards those who are suffering?

Exodus 2:23-25

23 Now it happened ein the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel fgroaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and gtheir cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24 So God hheard their groaning, and God iremembered His jcovenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God klooked upon the children of Israel, and God lacknowledged them.

Judges 2:16-18

16 Nevertheless, zthe Lord raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they aplayed the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do so. 18 And when the Lord raised up judges for them, bthe Lord was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge;cfor the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them.

God deeply cares about people (see James 5:11). This is a theme that is seen all through the Bible.

“His heart of love is touched by our sorrows and even by our utterances of them. . . . Nothing that in any way concerns our peace is too small for Him to notice. . . . No calamity can befall the least of His children . . . of which our heavenly Father is unobservant, or in which He takes no immediate interest.” - Ellen G. White, Steps to Christ, p. 100.