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Our Daily Bread - Tuesday, January 19, 2016
by RBC Ministries

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TWO MEN

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He groaned in the spirit, and was troubled...Jesus wept.
-John 11:33,35

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Genesis 46-48
Matthew 13:1-30

Two men were killed in our city on the same day. The first, a police officer, was shot down while trying to help a family. The other was a homeless man who was shot while drinking with friends early that day.
The whole city grieved for the police officer. He was a fine young man who cared for others and was loved by the neighbourhood he served. A few homeless people grieved for the friend they loved and lost.
I think the Lord grieved with them all.
When Jesus saw Mary and Martha and their friends weeping over the death of Lazarus, "He groaned in the spirit and was troubled" (John 11:33). He loved Lazarus and his sisters. Even though He knew that He would soon be raising Lazarus from the dead, He wept with them (v.35). Some Bible scholars think that part of Jesus' weeping also may have been over death itself and the pain and sadness it causes in people's hearts.
Loss is a part of life. But because Jesus is the "resurrection and the life" (v.25), those who believe in Him will one day experience an end of all death and sorrow. In the meantime, He weeps with us over our losses and asks us to "weep with those who weep" (Romans 12:15). - Anne Cetas
Give me a heart sympathetic and tender;
Jesus, like Thine, Jesus, like Thine,
Touched by the needs that are surging around me,
And filled with compassion divine. - Anon

Compassion helps to heal the hurts of others.

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