ORRIN MORRIS: God’s love for us motivates our love for humanity

The Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines compassion as “sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress with a desire to alleviate it.” That is the image that the Bible repeatedly portrays of Jesus. In Matthew 9 we read, “But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd” (vs. 36).

The message of Pentecost lives on as God’s followers are empowered by the Holy Spirit. God’s love for all humanity, as demonstrated in Jesus’s life, motivates us to compassionately reach out to alleviate the distress of others, wherever they may be in metro Atlanta, the state of Georgia, Afghanistan, Syria, or India.

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