A friend of mine has been sick all weekend. The poor guy hasn't the energy to do anything except sleep, and so Sarah and I have been trying to take care of him as best we can. We've been bringing him food, or taking him to get food if he could get out of bed, and making sure he stayed warm, and praying with him, and basically doing anything we could think of that we thought might help him.
But I couldn't help but notice how little of that I would have done if Sarah wasn't around. She has definitely been a convicting influence in my life the past few weeks. Even as Christians, it's so easy to get desensitized to the pain and the hurting people that constantly surround us. We ignore those in need, thinking "oh, they're not my problem" or "they can take care of themselves" or "if I help them they'll just take advantage of me."
I don't know, perhaps it's a product of the culture we're living in. Everything is so tech-oriented, that sometimes we forget that we're really just talking to a computer. We do so much texting, and IMing, and tweeting, and emailing, facebooking, that we've forgotten how to relate to people when they are standing right in from of our faces. When we finally do help, we simply throw money at them, and not to ease their pain, but simply to lessen our guilt.
But God is a hands-on God, and He asks from us a hands-on love. He walked among us, and ministered to the hurting, and healed the broken, and associated with the worst of humanity, the absolute dregs of society. And we are "little Christs." Doesn't that mean that we should try to do the same??
But I couldn't help but notice how little of that I would have done if Sarah wasn't around. She has definitely been a convicting influence in my life the past few weeks. Even as Christians, it's so easy to get desensitized to the pain and the hurting people that constantly surround us. We ignore those in need, thinking "oh, they're not my problem" or "they can take care of themselves" or "if I help them they'll just take advantage of me."
I don't know, perhaps it's a product of the culture we're living in. Everything is so tech-oriented, that sometimes we forget that we're really just talking to a computer. We do so much texting, and IMing, and tweeting, and emailing, facebooking, that we've forgotten how to relate to people when they are standing right in from of our faces. When we finally do help, we simply throw money at them, and not to ease their pain, but simply to lessen our guilt.
But God is a hands-on God, and He asks from us a hands-on love. He walked among us, and ministered to the hurting, and healed the broken, and associated with the worst of humanity, the absolute dregs of society. And we are "little Christs." Doesn't that mean that we should try to do the same??
1 John 1:1-4
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 We write this to make our joy complete.
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