Compassion … means to suffer with another. It means that when another person experiences pain or sorrow, we feel that pain. Throughout the Gospels we read that Jesus was moved with compassion—for the multitudes, for two blind men, for a leper, for a widow whose only son had died, for orphans. … Yet the disciples had a difficult time learning this quality of compassion. When people in one village did not welcome Jesus, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?" (Luke 9:54, NKJV).
Jesus said, "The Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them" (Luke 9:56).… The place to learn compassion is here, right now. The Apostle Peter wrote, "Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate" (1 Peter 3:8, NIV). 
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