Imitate Jehovah's Compassion - COMPASSION IS GOOD FOR YOU TOO!

Mental-healthy experts say that showing compassion can improve our health and our relationships with others. When you help those who are suffering, you will feel happier, more hopeful, less lonely, and less negative.  Showing compassion is good for you.  (Ephesians 4:31, 32)  When love moves us to help others, we have a good conscience because we know that we are doing what Jehovah wants us to do.  Compassion will help us to be better parents, marriage mates, and friends.  In addition people who show compassion to others usually receive help when they need it. - Read Matthew 5:7;  Luke 6:38.


Although showing compassion is good for us, the main reason we show compassion is that we want to imitate Jehovah and bring glory to him. He is the source of love and compassion. (Proverbs 14:31)  He sets the perfect example for us.  So let us do all we can to imitate God by showing compassion.  Then we will draw closer to our brothers and sisters and have better relationships with the people around us. -Galatians 6:10; 1 John 4:16.


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