Be A Help, Be A Blessing

Good Morning!! Do you feel your brother or sister's pains, sorrows, and heartaches, as though they are your own? When you see another Christian going through financial struggles, do you consider their need from afar, or do you empathize with the stress, pressure, and uncertainty, with which they are faced? When a brother or sister in Christ suffers sickness, do you minister to them as you would yourself want to be helped?

Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.—Hebrews 13:3 (NKJV) 

The Hebrew writer, is rewording and reapplying, what Jesus described as the second commandment of all: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself". (Matthew 22:39) This is no disinterested charity; this is Christ-centered, sacrificial, empathetic love. Jesus Christ not only loved us enough to die in our place for our sins, but He continues, even in heaven, to be touched Himself,...with the feelings and struggles of our infirmities and afflictions. (Hebrews 4:14) If Christ would love us like that, should we not love one another in the same way?

It is not enough, to merely pity the poor, or to pray for the persecuted,...you must treat them the way you would want to be treated.

Father God, keep us mindful of our brothers and sisters, and their needs,...show us how and where we may be a blessing. Amen.

"By faith, we are able to accept, that which we cannot understand."