Why Did Jesus Have So Much Compassion for Sinners?

Feeling frustrated by the folly

Of self-centered people?

Have you just about “had it”

With the immorality of the world?

How can your heart change

Toward people who deserve no mercy?

Ask Jesus for His eyes.

“When he saw the crowds,

He had compassion for them,

Because they were harassed and helpless,

Like sheep without a shepherd” (Matthew 9:36, ESV).

“Like sheep….”

No one expects a sheep to find its own way.

Left to themselves,

They foul their own water supply,

Over-graze their pastures into ruin,

And follow other misguided sheep

Until they gouge their paths into ruts.

There’s only one solution

For a sheep’s waywardness—

A good shepherd.

I bless you to see how

Shepherdless are the sheep of this world

So you can feel Christ’s compassion

And point them to the Good Shepherd.