Monday, May 12, 2008

Compassion

Compassion means - the feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for one who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate that suffering.

In the greek form this word is splagcnivzomai which in the greek means to be moved as to one's bowels, hence to be moved with compassion, have compassion (for the bowels were thought to be the seat of love and pity)

SO, compassion is made up of two requirements:
1) The feeling/emotion of deep sympathy and sorrow
2) An action that fills the need of the person who has the misfortune

In every case Christ had compassion, it is always followed by an action!

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