I was recently meditating on the three words “moved with compassion” that described Jesus’ response to a man with a skin disease who came for healing. As I tried to deeply ponder these words I was struck by this thought, “what must it have been like for Jesus?”
Colossians 1:16 tells us that
...everything was created by Him,
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities—
all things have been created through Him and for Him.
So, as Jesus encountered this ailing man he was directly confronted by the effects of the fall that had so devastatingly ravaged and perverted His beautiful creation. This man, who was lovingly fashioned to bear His very own image, now such a distorted broken reflection. How heartbreaking to see what had befallen that which was created with such love and attention. But this man, though broken and distorted by sin, was an image bearer none the less, and Jesus still having a heart for His creation is moved to compassion. In his healing, we get a glimpse of compassion that leads to justice, and a foretaste of the final restoration that is to come because of the compassion of Jesus.
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