WHEN compassionate

Luke 23:26-32 As they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from out of town, placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus.
A large number of people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him.
Jesus turned to them and said: "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children!
Because see, the time comes people will say: Blessed are the barren, and the womb of women have never given birth, and who were never breastfed milk.
Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us! and to the hills: Timbunilah us!
For if men do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry? "
And there was also led two others, two criminals to be executed along with him.

Reading: Luke 23:26-34

NATS: Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34)

In 2002 I was in Jakarta, Indonesia. At that time I became a teacher for two nights in a Bible conference. The first night, I left early to church to event organizers, and the pastor invited me to tour the building. The beauty of the church impresses me.

Then the priest invites me to a large room on the lower bunk. On the front there is a pulpit and communion table. Appeared behind a concrete wall with a simple wooden cross on the wall. Lettering underneath Indonesian language. I am writing to ask what the sound was, and I was shocked when he quoted the words of Christ who raised Him from the cross, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

I ask if there is a specific reason that the article was written on it. He then explained that a few years before this ever happened in the city was great unrest, and 21 churches were burned out in one day. The concrete wall is the only remaining - of the first church that burned.

Walls and verse reminds them of the compassion that was shown on the cross of Christ, and it is a message the church for their city. Revenge and bitterness is not a healing response hatred and rage the lost world. However, the compassion of Christ can be a response to recover, as they did 2,000 years ago - WEC

REQUIRED FOR MERCY

HEAL WOUNDS AND FELLOW HEARTS

Reference

• http://nonapurple-iniaqu.blogspot.com/2011/02/manusia-dan-cinta-kasih.html
• translation of android aplication e-RH; Yayayasan Lembaga SABDA (ylsa.org)