God Is Not Blind
God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
Ours is the God of love who, loving the earth’s people, and realizing that we had offended in every point, sent His only Son to redeem us to Himself and to instill the law of the Spirit of life within us. His eyes of compassion have been following man as he has stumbled through history under the burden of his own wretchedness.
Yet Calvary should prove even to the most skeptical that God is not blind to man’s plight, but that He was willing to suffer with him. The word compassion comes from two Latin words meaning “to suffer with.” God’s all-consuming love for mankind was best demonstrated at the cross, where His compassion was embodied in Jesus Christ. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself ” (2 Corinthians 5:19).
Never question God’s great love. Jeremiah the prophet wrote, “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yes, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore, with loving-kindness have I drawn thee” (Jeremiah 31:3).
Paul speaks of God as one “who is rich is mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us” (Ephesians 2:4). It was the love of God that sent Jesus Christ to the cross.
Young people talk about love. Most of their songs are about love. “The supreme happiness of life,” Victor Hugo said long ago, “is the conviction that we are loved.” “Love is the first requirement for mental health,” declared Sigmund Freud. The Bible teaches that “God is love” and that God loves you. To realize that is of paramount importance. Nothing else matters so much. And loving you, God has wonderful plans for your life. Who else could plan and guide your life so well?
Our Father and our God, You have truly suffered with me through Jesus on the cross. You have loved me with an everlasting love, and I am so humbled by it. Please show me how to be compassionate to others, suffering with them in love, and sharing with them the love of the cross. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Billy Graham, Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 201