Jesus cares about people

• Luke 7:12 (MSG)
• Luke 7:13 (MSG)
• Luke 7:14 (MSG)
• Luke 7:15 (MSG)

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God understands eternity, life, death, and all thing in between much better than we ever will. He gets the idea that life is fleeting and that physical death is inevitable.

But when he sees the mom mourning, and he knows her sad situation, his heart breaks. He just wants to make her feel better, I think. The kid will still die eventually, so Jesus hasn't done anything permanent here. But the relief and happiness he gave to the mother was the point.

He cares about her too much to let her suffer like that.

Does He not see the people suffering all over the world? (I think He does, we are called to be His hands and feet to the world, rescuing, helping, etc. If it seems like God isn't doing enough to save the world, perhaps it's because his hands and feet are sitting on their butts, watching too much tv, too busy to listen to what He's prompting them to do.)

Was it the humanness in Him that made Him a softy that day? Or is it the God-ness in us that gives us that quality, that we recognize in Jesus in this story?

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