“Seeing the multitudes, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd” (Matt. 9:36). Jesus’ heart went out to the crowds. His compassion was not mushy sentimentalism or self-serving flattery. Jesus’ kind of compassion confronted and corrected people in their sin as well as comforted them in their sorrow. So our guideline is to show compassion for people according to truth and with love (Eph. 4:15; 1 John 3:18) the way Jesus did. As I grow older,