Jesus - The One We are Looking For

He is Compassionate to the Despairing

For this woman, she was facing the grief of loss and the insecurity of the future.

Jesus was moved deeply at her plight. He is full of tender mercy toward those that are hurting.

Often Jesus would have compassion on the crowds. He had compassion on the blind who cried out for mercy Matthew 20:34 “And Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and immediately they recovered their sight and followed him.”

Here Jesus has compassion on a grieving mother and widow. James 1:27 “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.”

He is Patient with the Doubting

John the Baptist was also hurting. He had given his life as a forerunner to the Messiah, but now he found himself in prison.

Doubts are different than unbelief. Unbelief is refusal to trust God.

“Doubt is a matter of the mind: we cannot understand what God is doing or why He is doing it. Unbelief is a matter of the will: we refuse to believe God’s Word and obey what He tells us to do. “Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong,” said Oswald Chambers; “it may be a sign that he is thinking.” In John’s case, his inquiry was not born of willful unbelief, but of doubt nourished by physical and emotional strain. Wiersbe, W. W. (1996).

Jesus meets us at our point of need. He confirmed through signs that he is the Messiah.

The Hope for the doubting is the work and words of Jesus.

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