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Daily Devotion

The Compassion of Jesus

Created: Monday, 12 February 2018 09:50
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ScriptureLuke 7:11-17
 
Meditation:
 
In this passage, as in the one immediately preceding, once again Luke the doctor speaks. In verse 10, the word translated completely cured is the technical medical term for sound in mind, and limb. In verse 15, the word used for sitting up is the technical term for a patient sitting up in bed.
 
Nain was a day's journey from Capernaum and lay between Endor and Shunem where Elisha raised from the dead another mother's son (2 Kings 4:18-37).
In many ways, this is one of the loveliest stories in all the gospels. (1st) it tells of the pathos and the poignancy of human life. The funeral procession would be headed by the band of professional mourners with their flutes, and cymbals, uttering in a kind of frenzy their shrill cries of grief. There is all the ageless sorrow of the world in the austere, and simple sentence, "He was his mother's only son, and she is a widow." (2nd) to the pathos of human life, Luke adds the compassion of Jesus. Jesus was moved to the depths of His heart. There is no stronger word in the Greek language for sympathy; again, and again in the Gospel story, it is used of Jesus.
 
Here, men were presented with the amazing conception of one who was the Son of God being moved to the depts of His being.   For many, that is the most precious thing about the God, and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.   (3rd) to the compassion of Jesus, Luke adds the power of Jesus. He went up, and touched the bier. As one commentator says, "Jesus claimed as His own what death had seized as his prey." Jesus is not only the Lord of Life; He is the Lord of death, who Himself triumphed over the grave, and who promised that, because He lives, we shall also live! (John 14:19).
 
Life Application: How do you interpret this Lucian story? Stories of Jesus raising the dead are in the other Gospels, but here there is a doctor who is a witness to this resurrection.
 
Praise/Prayer: Dear Father, I am so thankful for this story recorded by Dr. Luke. The other stories of the people being raised are just viewed by witnesses who were not doctors.   However, here Luke can prove the resurrection, and so can the mother who received her son back from Jesus. I have never seen the dead raised back to life, but I believe that day is coming soon. Amen!
 

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