Some people say that God is an angry God. And I understand why they may come to that conclusion. The Bible is a confusing book and set in a different time period than now. But God, Jehovah, is a compassionate parent. If we look at it that way, we may better understand the nature of God. Especially if we are parents — if we are a mother or a father — we have experiences of what it means to be compassionate. (Unless you have been a terrible, horrible, very bad parent. And unfortunately, some fall into that description.) But I believe we can learn this emotion and bless others. Looking at the Bible we can find various references of what it means when God has compassion — it is to
Sorrow and pity for one in distress, creating a desire to relieve, a feeling ascribed alike to man and God; in Biblical Hebrew, (“riḥam,” from “reḥem,” the mother, womb), “to pity” or “to show mercy” in view of the sufferer’s helplessness, hence also “to forgive” (Hab. iii. 2); , “to forbear” (Ex. ii. 6; I Sam. xv. 3; Jer. xv. 15, xxi. 7); “to spare” (Deut. vii. 16, xiii. 8; Ezek. vii. 4, xx. 17); and , “to be gracious” and “kind” (Isa. xxii. 23 [if the text is correct]; Prov. xx. 28; Job vi. 14; Num. xiv. 19; Gen. xxx. ii. 10; Isa. lxiii. 7) (Jewish Encyclopedia)
“Rehem” — the mother, the womb, portrays this emotion of protection and love.
