Compassion: Jonah Series - Week 1

Week 1 — Move Toward the Mess (Jonah 1:1-3) 

The most difficult thing about compassion is actually showing it. Thinking it is easy. In fact, I would suggest we think we are far more compassionate than we actually are. But thinking it is simply being sympathetic and it doesn’t go very far to resolving the situation. It’s even harder when we don’t like the people involved in the mess. It’s a natural reaction, but one that God hasn’t intended for us to take. The calling God had for Jonah was to rise up and go; show your enemies compassion. God asked him to move toward the mess and this is what he asks of us. 

Speaker: Anthony Vander Laan