We can give. We can go. We can get involved. If I can help somebody as I pass along, If I can cheer somebody with a word or song, If I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, Then my living will not be in vain. Compassion has a purpose in it that is congruent with the purpose of Christ and that brings joy to our hearts.
Compassion involves prayer.
It also involves purpose. It involves prayer. Now of course this authority was not to be abused like it is in so many circles today. Modern disciples are fighting more over who has the authority than we are planning what to do. Someone said power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.