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Attributes of God’s Love – 7

Sympathy - The Fellowship of Love

 

1 John 4:7 - Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone

that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 

Sympathy is defined as a person feeling for another person. So, how to we

demonstrate this attribute of God?

We are told in Galatians 6:2 - Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law

of Christ. 

We see in Galatians 6:2 one way to demonstrate the sympathy of God is to be

willing to bear one another’s burdens. When we do so the Scripture says we

are fulfilling the law of Christ.

Which law is being spoken of? We find the answer in Luke 10:27 - And he

answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with

all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy

neighbour as thyself.

The Book of James calls it the Royal Law in Jamess 2:8 - If ye fulfil the royal

law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye

do well:

We learn another way to show this attribute of God in Hebrews 13:3 - Remember

them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity,

as being yourselves also in the body. 

If we are going to be the light of the world, if we are going to be the salt of

the earth, we can do that by demonstrating these seven attributes of God:

Compassion, Kindness, Grace, Mercy, Sacrifice, Pity, and Sympathy.