HIS COMPASSION FAILS NOT!!

By E.M. Bounds

The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy.

What a comfort and what hope there is to fill our hearts when we think of One in heaven who ever lives to intercede for us, because "His compassion fails not!"

Jesus Christ was altogether man.  While He was the divine Son of God yet at the same time, He was the human Son of God. Christ had a preeminently human side, and, here, compassion reigned.  He was tempted in all points as we are, yet without sin.  At one time how the flesh seems to have weakened under the fearful strain upon Him, and how He must have inwardly shrunk under the pain and pull!  Looking up to heaven, He prays, "Father, save Me from this hour."  Only He can solve the mystery who has followed his Lord in straits and gloom and pain, and realized that the "spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."

All this but fitted our Lord to be a compassionate Savior.  It is no sin to feel the pain and realize the darkness on the path into which God leads.  It is only human to cry out against the pain, the terror, and desolation of that hour.  It is divine to cry out to God in that hour, even while shrinking and sinking down.  "For this cause came I unto this hour."  Shall I fail through weakness of the flesh? No.  "Father, glorify thy name."  How strong it makes us, and how true, to have one pole star to guide us to the glory of God!

From E. M. Bounds -  The Essentials of Prayer, Chapter 10.