Hope4Bath

Suggested reading: Luke chapter 7 verses 11-18. There is no place more in need of a display of COMPASSION than a funeral. Today we meet a funeral procession coming out of the attractive city of Nain. The intimate details Luke gives us heighten the sadness of the occasion. We learn that ‘a dead man was ….  Read More

Suggested reading: Mark chapter 4 verses 35-41; chapter 5 verses 1-20. Are you guilty, at times, of wondering whether God actually cares about you, particularly when you are passing through difficult circumstances? Even Jesus’s disciples were guilty of this. On one occasion they were in a boat in the midst of a raging storm that ….  Read More

81 My soul faints for Your salvation, but I hope in Your word. 82 My eyes fail from searching Your word, saying, “When will You comfort me?” 83 For I have become like a wineskin in smoke, yet I do not forget Your statutes. 84 How many are the days of Your servant? When will You execute judgment on those who persecute me? 85 The proud ….  Read More

“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” John’s Gospel chapter 14 verse 27. What a verse for today! With all of us facing uncertainties, shocked by tragic events, into our ….  Read More

Then He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a place for the wine vat and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country. 2 Now at vintage-time he sent a servant to the vinedressers, that he might receive some of the fruit of the ….  Read More

Suggested reading: Matthew chapter 20 verses 17-34 How would you describe ‘greatness’? Jesus’s words expose the view of ungodly men and women: ‘YOU know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them’, verse 25. Any thought of COMPASSION does not sit comfortably in such ….  Read More

You have dealt well with Your servant, O Lord, according to Your word. 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe Your commandments. 67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word. 68 You are good, and do good; teach me Your statutes. 69 The proud have forged a lie against me, but I will keep Your precepts with my whole heart. ….  Read More

In a previous meditation, we suggested that to see COMPASSION lived out, there was only one Person to look to, that is Jesus Christ. Charles Wesley gave expression to this in one of his hymns: Jesus, Thou art all compassion pure, unbounded love Thou art. In our future meditations we will consider seven occasions in ….  Read More

The Old Testament prophet, Jeremiah wrote, ‘Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His COMPASSIONS fail not. They are new every morning, Great is your faithfulness . . . though He causes grief, Yet will he show COMPASSION according to the multitude of His mercies’, Lamentations chapter 3 verses 22-23, 33. As he ….  Read More

Remember the word to Your servant, upon which You have caused me to hope. 50 This is my comfort in my affliction, for Your word has given me life. 51 The proud have me in great derision, yet I do not turn aside from Your law. 52 I remembered Your judgments of old, O Lord, and have comforted myself. 53 Indignation has taken hold ….  Read More