DAILY?READINGS: Deut. 1; Eccl. 1 to 2:11; Luke 6:1-19
For we have not a High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted (tested) like as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15
We constantly read about the Lord’s compassion. He had compassion on the multitudes because they were as sheep having no shepherd. He had compassion on the possessed and diseased and healed them. But the compassion of the Saviour continues even as He sits in heaven. We read that as our great High Priest He can be “touched.” What a comfort to know that the Lord feels with us, and for us, and that He fully understands what we are going through, and “He is able to succour them that are tempted” (Heb. 2:18). —W. H. Burnett
Touched with a sympathy within, He knows our feeble frame,
He knows what sore temptations are, for He endured the same. —I. Watts