The Scripture teaches that God is compassionate, “Nevertheless, in Your great compassion You did not make an end of them or forsake them, For You are a gracious and compassionate God.“(Nehemiah 9:31) He extols compassion and commands it in His people’s lives, “So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.“(Colossians 3:12)
However, His compassion is upon the truly needy, “He will have compassion on the poor and needy, And the lives of the needy he will save.“(Psalm 72:13)Moreover, the reception of compassion is based upon confession of wrongdoing, repenting, returning to the Lord, and righteous living, “He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion.” (Proverbs 28:13) “Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the Lord, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.“(Isaiah 55:7)
Today, secularists and liberals have turned compassion into evil. For they have compassion on the professor who teaches anything contrary to godliness, but no compassion for the students who must endure it; little compassion for the victims but a cacophony of vociferous clamoring for the rights of criminals who brutally rape, mangle, and murder, and now even terrorists who have and will seek again to destroy us, but little compassion for victims and potential victims. The pedophile is integrated back into the community where children play, all out of so-called compassion for the rehabilitated. Then when another child is molested, the therapists say the pedophile got sick again, probably from too much exposure to society.
The lazy are rewarded by the fruit of the worker through government redistribution of wealth all in the name of compassion, when the Scripture says clearly, “… if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.“(2 Thessalonians 3:10) Under this new compassion, support is not for the hard worker, but for those who choose to live idle lives. The scripture declares that “the compassion of the wicked is cruel.“(Proverbs 12:10)
Compassion should be upon the truly needy, students who need truth, victims and potential victims…but as the Scripture says, “You love evil more than good, Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.“(Psalm 52:3)
True biblical compassion is upon the genuinely needy, calls for the wrongdoer to do right, protects the innocent and punishes the unrepentant evildoer. I am not aware of any meaningful way the government can be compassionate with other people’s resources! Moreover, undermining true biblical compassion by undermining personal responsibility is evil and destructive to any society.
