Jesus tender heart.. 

He loved us anyway...we were still sinners destined for an eternity in Hell when Jesus died for us. With no way out because that is what we deserve. But He made a way! Our beloved Jesus, died for us! Took on a punishment that was unimaginably brutal, filled with unbridled hatred, and profoundly agonizing. So we didn't have to suffer for eternity in Hell. He didn't want Heaven without us and wishes that not one of us should perish, but be with him forever. His love IS unconditional, pure, enduring and everlasting. As children that will not just stop sinning and 'be good,' we are blessed that our Heavenly Father won't give up on us. He always has His arms wide open and His mercy and forgiveness He gives freely and abundantly. We've only to ask. He saw our unformed substance and with purpose brought us into this world. Breathed life into us and watches over us. He guards and protects us every second of every day. When we are stupid to stray, He is faithful to correct us, so we can enter back into His good grace with repentance and His forgiveness. Our loving Father stands strong and true. He is The Good Shepherd and leaves the 99 to find the ONE!  You know...YOU!  You know the moment "you knew" He found you!

Jesus' tender heart...Jesus' compassion is found abundantly throughout the bible. Jesus sees your tears and knows exactly why you are crying. He does not remain at a distance, but intimately enters into your pain. Every tear that falls is counted, remembered, and held by Him as precious. (Psalm 56:8) 

As Jesus approached Jerusalem at the start of His final week before the crucifixion, He saw the city and openly wept over it. He wept because the people rejected Him as their Messiah and failed to recognize the path to true peace. He likens Himself to a mother hen wanting to gather her chicks. Because they missed their opportunity, Jesus prophesied the city's future destruction. (Luke 19:41, Luke 13:34-35)

Tenderness in the parable of the Prodigal Son, (Luke 15) the Father, filled with compassion RUNS to the son! Throws His arms around the son and kissed him, showing extravagant unearned grace and love! (The Father being our Heavenly Father and we being the Prodigal Son.) 

Jesus' heart broken and wept at Lazarus tomb when He was deeply moved with empathy and grief over the pain of death in a broken world.  And also Jesus when He sees a grieving widow burying her only son. His heart goes out to her, He tenderly tells her not to weep and He resurrects her son to life. (Luke 7:11-15)

Also when the leper says, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean,” Jesus immediately stretches out his hand and touches him, with the words, “I will; be clean”. The word will in both the leper’s request and in Jesus’s answer is the Greek word for “wish” or “desire.” The leper was asking about Jesus’s deepest desire. And Jesus revealed his deepest desire by healing him. (Matt. 8:2–3)

Time and time again we see throughout scripture the tender loving heart of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is the “friend of . . . sinners” (Luke 7:34).

🙏🏻Let's Pray,🙏🏻

Dear Heavenly Father, grant us the wisdom to trust you with our lives, and to expect nothing less than your love and kindness towards we your children. Lord we ask that you strengthen our hearts in the Christian Hope, the Christian Hope and Freedom that only comes in and through Jesus Christ!

 Amen!