Compassion -Psalms 135:13-14

"Your name, O LORD, endures forever, Your fame, O LORD, throughout all generations. For the LORD will judge His people, and He will have compassion on His servants."

The Cheerful Giver -2 Corinthians 9:6-9

"But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace about toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. As it is written: "He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.""

The God of All Comfort -2 Corinthians 1:3-4

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God."

I really like how the end of this verse points out that God comforts us so we can in turn comfort others.

Favorable To Your Land -Psalms 85:1-3

"LORD, You have been favorable to Your land; You have brought back the captivity of Jacob. You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people; You have covered all their sin. You have taken away all Your wrath; You have turned from the fierceness of Your anger."

Full of Compassion -Psalms 145:8

"The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy."

Afflicted No More -Nahum 1:12-13

"Thus says the LORD: "Though they are safe, and likewise many, Yet in this manner they will be cut down when he passes through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more; For now I will break off his yoke from you, And burst your bonds apart.""

Regards the Lowly -Psalms 138:6

"Though the LORD is on high, Yet He regards the lowly; But the proud He knows from afar."

A Broken Spirit -Psalms 51:16

This is such a powerful chapter. To me, this chapter is the perfect example of being broken before God as we see David pour out His heart to God after his sin with Bathsheba.

This verse that I'm sharing gives us the promise that God won't reject us as we come in brokenness to Him.

"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart-These, O God, You will not despise."

The Set Time Has Come -Psalms 102:13

"You will arise and have mercy on Zion; For the time to favor her, Yes, the set time, has come."

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ -Ephesians 1:3-6

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved."

This great passage is full of promises:

• He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing
• He chose us in Him...before the world was even created
• He chose us as His sons
• He made us accepted in the Beloved

And as the passage says, He did this according to His will, to bring praise to Him.

Light in the Darkness -Psalms 112:4

This is part 3 of our trip through Psalms 112.

"Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness; He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous."

I really like the mental image I picture from reading this verse...visualizing light "rising up" in darkness, and knowing that God is our light in this world of darkness.

Then this verse lists some of God's attributes...we serve a gracious, compassionate, and righteous God.


That sounds like the perfection we as human beings have never attained, and never will, apart from Christ.