Steven H Miller, Th.M.

I’ve been thinking today a bit about compassion, especially in how it relates to God. If you look it up in the dictionary, you’ll see that compassion is defined as: a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering. You’ll also see that compassionate is defined as” 1. having or showing compassion or 2) to have compassion for; pity.  Now, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that little true compassion is found in the world today. Sure, there are a few agencies in operation that claim to be showing compassion and they are no doubt doing the best that they can, but I have to wonder just how many are operating out of true compassion. I think the best place to find out what true compassion is, is to read about in the Bible and how it relates to God and who He is. Let’s take some time out and read Psalm 103. You will see in verse 2 of Psalm 103 (NIV) that we are reminded to not to forget G...

      This morning, I was corresponding with an old friend from high school, and we were discussing many of the people who we had been in school with.  It was amazing to both of us just how much we’ve all changed and how much life has impacted each one of us in various ways.  Some have been seriously injured in accidents; others have not aged the best and even others have died in the years since we graduated high school.       As I was reflecting on this, for whatever reason, I got a thought of how many of us spend our lives chasing after things that are nothing more than a waste of time, a waste of life, a waste of our energies and so on.  Then the thought hit me that not only do we chase after the wrong things, but we go after them “full-tilt”.       If you know anything about the medieval times when knights of all sorts were in the world, you’ll know that the word “full-tilt” comes from that era, when in joisting compe...