Jesus Is...

FOCUSED:
Jesus knew His purpose on earth and that is to do the will of God His Father. He never wasted time. He gives top priority to what God has intended for Him to do no matter how difficult it is. Thus He lived a focused and purposeful life.

^{John 4: 34} “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.


^{Luke 4:42-44} At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them. But he said,“I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.”And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.

COMPASSIONATE:
Jesus loves people. He is compassionate to whomever He encounters. He is merciful towards the people who are socially unacceptable to society. And because of His compassion towards people, He was willing to lay down His life for them.

^John10:14-15 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 


^{John 8:2-11} At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
   But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.  When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
   At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
    “No one, sir,” she said.
   “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”


 ^{Luke 5:27-32} After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him. Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

FAITHFUL:
He gives priority to relationships. He is faithful to His friends and loves them unconditionally. Regardless of how they failed Him, He never falters to forgive them and gives them a second chance. He never failed to accomplish what He had promised to do.

^{1 John 1:9} If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
^{John 15:13} Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

HUMBLE:
He serves people around Him. He healed the sick, performed miracles, preached in different towns and even washed His disciples feet.  He never imposed His authority to others but instead respected who are in authority. He was humble by obeying God even to the point of death.

^{John 13:3-5} Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.