God’s fullest self-revelation as Savior came in the person of Jesus Christ—God in human flesh. The incarnation itself was an expression of sympathy and identification with our weakness (Hebrews 4:15). In Christ we can see countless expressions of divine compassion translated into human idioms that we easily understand and identify with—including sadness, sympathy, and tears …
This post was first published onAugust1, 2016, and originally appeared as a part of a blog series titled “Compassion.” –ed. The fact that God is compassionate and merciful is good news for sinners. It’s why we don’t always get what we deserve. And that compassion finds its fullest expression in the Person and work of …