Uphold me according unto Thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. – Psalm 119:116

Have not you noticed, some of you, that after doing your best to serve the Lord, when somebody has sneered at you, or you have met with such a rebuff as made you half- inclined to give up the work, an unexpected success has been given you, so that you have not played the Jonah and run away to Tarshish, but kept to your work? Ah! how many times in your life, if you could read it all, you would have to stop and write between the lines, “He was moved with compassion.” Many and many a time, when no other compassion could help, when all the sympathy of friends would be unavailing, He has been moved with compassion towards us, has said to us, “Be of good cheer,” banished our fears with His voice, and filled our souls to overflowing with gratitude. When we have been misrepresented, traduced, and slandered, we have found in the sympathy of Christ our richest support, till we could sing with rapture the verse-I cannot help quoting it now, though I have often quoted it before:-

“If on my face for Thy dear name
Shame and reproach shall be,
I’ll hail reproach and welcome shame,
Since Thou rememberest me.”

The compassion of the Master making up for all the abuses of His enemies. And, believe me, there is nothing sweeter to a forlorn and broken spirit than the fact that Jesus has compassion. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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