January 28

CHRIST the COMPASSIONATE: “When He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them” (Mt 9:36). D.L. Moody tells of visiting, with his daughter, a poor woman whose little girl had drowned. Her drunkard husband sat insensible in the corner. Moody made arrangements for a coffin and for burial in a Potter’s Field. As he stepped out the door, his little daughter turned to him and asked, “Papa, if I should fall into the water and drown, would you feel bad?” “I think it would break my heart,” he replied as he kissed her. “Papa,” she asked, “did you feel bad for that poor mother?” Moody writes, “The child had been shocked at her own father. How that question cut me to the heart. I could not speak.” He returned to his home, locked the door of his study, and poured out his heart to the Compassionate One, pleading that he too might share in the compassion of His Master. Returning to the woman, he wept with her, then provided added practical help.

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