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“In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to eat, he called his disciples and said to them, 2 ‘I have compassion for the crowd because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat. If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way—and some of them have come from a great distance.’ His disciples replied, ‘How can one feed these people with bread here in the desert?’ He asked them, ‘How many loaves do you have?’ They said, ‘Seven.’ Then he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves, and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute, and they distributed them to the crowd. They had also a few small fish, and after blessing them he ordered that these, too, should be distributed. They ate and were filled, and they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full. Now there were about four thousand people. And he sent them away. 10 And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha” Mark 8:1-10.


I return to this text again today to take note of the compassion of Jesus Christ, compassion for you and for me when we live life based on our own definitions and plans and ambitions. Jesus explains His compassion as His love and compassion that grows from watching us trying to live apart from Him. He is the bread of each of our lives, and when we ignore and live without Him, we “will faint along the way” of life. We will fall over in our own sin and in our own thoughts.


We must allow God to feed us, to give us His sustaining grace and love. His compassion.


Today we are simply invited to return to Christ for His sustaining and compassionate grace. May we eat the bread of Life, digest Him in our hearts and souls. So join me in returning to Christ. Turn back NOW. Do not put off today what you need to do now. Repent!


Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.


From the Bible:


Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out” Acts 3:19.


“The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance” 2 Peter 3:9.


“Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” Acts 2:38.


“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land” 2 Chronicles 7:14.

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