Compassion

“Let your compassion come to me that I may live, for your law is my delight.” (Psalm 119:77)

The most common attribute mentioned in the Gospels of the Lord Jesus is His compassion. We often read that he was moved with compassion. Compassion for the weak, the lost, the hurting was a driving force in His ministry. We often think of compassion of a mother for her children.

The Psalmist recognizes the compassion of God the Father as he spent time in God’s Word. He delighted in what the Word of God revealed about the Father.
If you were to ask someone today the difference between the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New they would tell you that the God of the Old was a God of wrath while the God of the New is a God of love and compassion. The Psalmist did not see that distinction. To him the God he worshipped was a God of compassion. If we would take off our blinders and read the Old Testament we would see the compassion of God there as we see it in Christ Jesus.