by Constance Keasler

Created on: August 28, 2009   Last Updated: August 29, 2009

Did you ever find a bird or animal in need and take it home? Remember how you felt sad for it and wanted to do something to help? That feeling is called compassion and God our Father has that feeling towards us, His children. In the beginning of creation we see God's compassion and it continues throughout the Bible.

First Expression of Compassion in the Bible

When God created man he placed him in the Garden of Eden with beautiful bountiful trees and gold filled rivers but in Genesis 2:18 we see that God looked on his creation and noticed that man was lonely. The LORD God said: "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him." (NAB) God felt sad for man, like you did with the animal, and wanted to help.

First Act of Compassion in the Bible

What God does to help man with his problem is a big part of God's compassion, like taking the animal home. In Genesis 2:19, we see God's action. "So the LORD God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each of them would be its name." (NAB)

Second Expression of Compassion in the Bible

In the next verse after all the great birds and animals were created and named God saw that Adam was still in need of a suitable partner. He was sad again and wanted to do something else to help. This might be like taking a bird or animal home and finding out that it couldn't stay there, you need to take it to a shelter or someone else's home.

Second Act of Compassion in the Bible

God put Adam in a deep sleep and took a rib from him which he made into a woman. When the woman was brought to Adam he said "This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called 'woman', for out of 'her man' this one has been taken." Genesis 2:23 (NAB) When God created woman she was the perfect partner for Adam, He didn't create anything else. The two were so well matched that their relationship is sacred as it states in the Bible, "That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body." Genesis 2:24 (NAB)

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