Thu Oct 29

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words Jesus and compassion.

Reading

Luke 7:1-17—He Had Compassion

Optional Reading

Matthew 9:35–38

Keys for kids

Also for the littles. Young households might choose, after Keys for Kids, to go directly to praise and prayer.

Jesus has compassion on hurting people.
We should, too—even though we don’t have the power of Jesus.
As we see Jesus’s compassion, we should glorify Him.

Questions

(Some read the ?s before the notes/ ask them after.)

How did Jesus show compassion to the widow?
How did Jesus show compassion to the centurion?
How can you show compassion?

Catechism

WSC #90

How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?

That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives.

(Proverbs 8:34; 1 Peter 2:1-2; Psalms 119:18; Hebrews 4:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; Psalms 119:11; Luke 8:15; James 1:25)

Notes

(See Saturday for authors.)

Jesus had compassion. We see that all throughout the gospel accounts. Jesus has compassion. We who are His have seen that in Jesus saving us and caring for us.

Do you ever care so much for someone who is hurting in some way that you actually get a stomachache? There is a sense of that in this word compassion. Luke tells us in v. 13 that Jesus had this compassion for the widow of Nain whose only son had died. The funeral procession crossed paths with the crowd travelling with Jesus.

Bentley notes that Jesus was filled with compassion and said, ‘Don’t cry.’ This is what we too say in similar circumstances, but unlike us, Jesus had the power to do something which could bring joy into the sadness. He went up to the coffin and touched it. Then he raised the dead son to life!

But Jesus’s compassion is not limited to this sad widow. His life on this earth was marked by compassion. Certainly Jesus showed compassion to the centurion whose servant He healed. And He shows compassion to us. Christ died for us—sinners (Rom 5:8).

Might we give God glory for the power and the compassion of our Savior.

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 103b, 22c

Prayer

Give thanks for Jesus’s compassion given to you.
Pray for the preparation for preaching God’s Word this Lord's Day.
Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.