Jeremiah 8:21 Since my people are crushed, I am crushed; I mourn, and horror grips me.

Do you have compassion for all the people around you or do you pick and choose who you have compassion for?

God wants us to have compassion fro all His people – and that includes people we may look at as being our enemies at times!

If we are not crushed when the people around us feel crushed, then do we actually have compassion for them?

1 Corinthians 15:42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;

Every living being on earth is different. We are different to animals. We are different to fish and birds.

And then, when we die in our physical bodies, we are raised up in our spiritual bodies – very different again!

Our physical bodies all have a limited lifespan no matter what we are: fish, bird, animal or mammal; but our spiritual bodies are eternal!

Psalm 17:5 My steps have held to your paths; my feet have not stumbled.

When the psalmist wrote this psalm, it was not just a plea for God to help and keep them, but a declaration of their love for God too.

How did they show their love to God, by doing God’s will and continuing to follow His ways all the time.

The more we stick to God’s ways in our lives, the more we will find it is easier not to give in to the temptations of the world around us!