The Word Compassion. It is a word of Conviction for me. And that is why this quote is important. It is funny how 550-year-old words can step so hard on my toes!
If you cannot make yourself what you would wish to be, how can you bend others to your will? We want them to be perfect, yet we do not correct our own faults. We wish them to be severely corrected, yet we will not correct ourselves. Their great liberty displeases us, yet we would not be denied what we ask. We would have them bound by laws, yet we will allow ourselves to be restrained in nothing. Hence, it is clear how seldom we think of others as we do of ourselves.
–Thomas à Kempis
The second greatest commandment in all of God’s Word: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Much more easily said than done.
God help me to love others as I love myself.
Help me to consider the needs of others above my own.
Help me to have the compassion and love of Jesus.