God, Compassionate and Caring

When I was thinking about crying, I asked myself, “Why do we cry? When do we cry?” We cry when we are hurt, afflicted, suffering, when we feel unbearable pain. Have you ever thought that God would cry? Or even better, that He would cry for you and for me? Many of us think as David once thought, that God has forsaken and forgotten us. He created us and left us alone to live a life the way we want to live. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?” (Psalm 22:1) I am sure these words sound familiar; Jesus uttered the same words on the cross.

God is compassionate and caring even when we sin. Although our ancestors Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s command and God expelled them from the garden of Eden, God never stopped loving and caring for them. As soon as Adam and Eve felt naked because of their sin, God compassionately made a garment of animal skin. (Gen. 3:21) I believe that was the skin of a lamb, representing Jesus—the Lamb of God (John 1:36).