Mark 3:1-5

Protect your heart…out of it comes compassion, mercy and grace. Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit.

In order to do the will of the Father a soft, pliable, teachable spirit is a necessity. The world will try to destroy your compassion don’t let it. 

Satan would like nothing better than to make us complacent in a world set for self destruction.

It is possible, as Paul exhorts, to be angry and not sin. Jesus demonstrated this righteous anger. He was grieved with sin but did not sin Himself by retaliating or losing control of His emotions.

Mark 3:1-5

3 And He entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand. ² So they watched Him closely, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. ³ And He said to the man who had the withered hand,  “Step forward.” ⁴ Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they kept silent. ⁵ And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.

³² The wicked watches the righteous, And seeks to slay him. 

Psalm 37:32

²⁰ So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might seize on His words, in order to deliver Him to the power and the authority of the governor. 

Luke 20:20