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The Compassionate Healer, February 10
And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved
with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
Matthew 14:14
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Jesus, precious Saviour, never seemed to become weary of the impor-
tunities of the sin-sick souls and the sick with all kinds of diseases. “And
Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compas-
sion toward them” (
Mark 6:34
). This means a great deal to the suffering
ones. He identified His interest with theirs. He shared their burdens. He
felt their fears. He had yearning pity that was pain to the heart of Christ.
O what love, what matchless love! He has become one with us that He
might share with humanity in all their experience. He was tempted in all
points like as we are, yet was without sin. Humanity is not to be demerited
as a cheap and common thing. Christ clothed His divinity with humanity
that humanity might be clothed with the righteousness of Christ. Man is
the object of His solicitude and great love.
Redemption—O how much is comprehended in the word! All who will
consent to be redeemed are uplifted and sanctified, redeemed through Jesus
Christ from all commonness and earthliness, and enabled to cooperate
with God in the great work of salvation. Jesus accepted humanity and
revealed in His own life and character what man may be even when, in
the providence of God, he is placed in the poorest circumstances of life.
He had not even a penny wherewith to pay the tax money exacted, and
wrought a miracle to obtain the little sum.
Jesus, precious Saviour, was homeless and often hungry. He had
not where to lay His head. He was wearied oft. Humanity is honored
because Jesus assumed humanity to reveal to the world what humanity
may become. He came to bring life and immortality to light, to fill the
commonplace, homeliest pursuits of life with brightness. Jesus is bending
over us, searching into our characters to see if His own character is reflected
in us
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Letter 119, 1893
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