Compassion Defined

                Recently I was sharing with some teenage girls what I personally feel the word "Compassion"
really means. I defined it this way: Compassion is empathy moving a person to action, and in doing so it becomes a passion.
                If you look at the word, you cannot have compassion without passion. A person who has compassion isn't someone who sits back and does nothing. No. The Bible says that Jesus was "moved with compassion." And what did He do with that compassion? He began to heal people. Once, He even raised someone from the dead because of compassion! Compassion moved Him to action.
                What a perfect example for us. What a perfect example for my own life and heart. If I know that my sister fell down a flight of stairs and broke her leg, but I sat there and did nothing, where is my compassion? It is nonexistent. It moves us to action. It moves me to be a part of something.
                  God began developing this in me long ago- a compassion for children. Somewhere along the line it developed into a passion that He is using the drive the course of my life. Sometime during my teenage years He began to stir in me a compassion for the orphaned children of this world. And it has never died away. I'm so excited for the chance to live out the compassion of Jesus Christ in the lives of others. To have the opportunity to be His hands, to have a heart that beats like His...
                  And that is why this blog is titled "Compassion." It is part of the character of God, and one He has created me to display to the forsaken and needy.