Living Compassionately
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we begin to wrap up our week on being used by God, today we’ll explore what it means to live compassionately. This radical way of living will transform the people around you and expose them to the beautiful nature of Jesus. After we experience his great compassion for us, may we have no choice but to mimic that with others.
Our Scripture for today comes from Ephesians 4:32, and today's worship is Could You Be This Good by Kristene DiMarco.
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| 0:00.0 | As we begin to wrap up our week on being used by God, |
| 0:09.0 | today we'll explore what it means to live compassionally. |
| 0:13.0 | This radical way of living will transform the people around you |
| 0:17.0 | and expose them to the beautiful nature of Jesus. |
| 0:24.9 | After we experience his great compassion for us, |
| 0:29.6 | may we have no choice but to mimic that compassion with others. |
| 0:50.3 | Welcome to the First of Team podcast. Our verse for today comes from Ephesians 4, verse 32, where Scripture says, Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another as God and Christ forgave you. |
| 1:01.6 | One of the most impactful ways we can share God's heart with others is by living compassionately. |
| 1:10.1 | To show compassion is to step outside of yourself |
| 1:13.6 | and love another in times of weakness. |
| 1:16.6 | And to live compassionately is to posture your heart continually |
| 1:21.6 | toward giving grace and love to those who need it most. |
| 1:32.1 | Very little stirs my heart to God more than compassion. |
| 1:39.2 | When someone sees me in my imperfection and chooses to love me rather than cast me aside, |
| 1:43.6 | my affection for them and God is automatically stirred. Oftentimes, the world is too busy or self-focused to show compassion. |
| 1:50.0 | We get too caught up in our plans, our needs, and our image |
| 1:55.0 | to see the hurting and share God's heart. |
| 1:58.0 | But God is calling us to a life lived humbly and sacrifially. |
| 2:05.6 | Philippians 2 4 says, |
| 2:07.6 | Let each of you look not only to his own interests, |
| 2:11.6 | but also to the interests of others. |
| 2:14.6 | The world is in desperate need of compassion. People need mercy and grace when they |
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