Let’s be honest. The idea of compassion is maybe a notch above going out of your way to be “nice”. Who thinks of profound sacrifice and creativity in an expansive personal effort to help and care for the people God has or puts in your life? What if God searches for someone to His compassion? This is your TIME to learn and to give alone before God. No limit to what you can do if you push everything you are.
Is it basically a smile and doing some good deeds” Is there any sense of catharsis and healing to your touch of others? I mean if love is the first stage of laying down our lives and care is the second stage how much greater is compassion.
One of my daughters, Ruth, sent this picture to me for my 71st birthday. (Ow. It hurts to even say that number.) It made think of one word accountability. How serious are we about our own willingness to take our TIME seriously on earth? What is the real value of our lives? How much TIME are we willing to invest in our individual capacity to show the love of God to this world?
The King of Compassion opened up the portal to eternal resources through His death and resurrection. Yet we carry nothing unique in our for compassion. Come on man. I think our accountability in this day and age is enormous. Is it more important for people to know that you are “righteous” or that for people to know they can be righteous a simple choice to believe God?
Never underestimate yourself, worth, potential once you find your identify in the love God. When you realize how sees you then you can convey how He sees them. All by faith of a mustard seed. The joy of seeing yourself in God’s love starts with a budge and generates the energy of love that you receive then give. I don’t walk in God but by faith in God. I have no mystical experience but same ways all men learn when they start to discover the ways of faith. The “mechanics” of faith necessitate the closeness of God mindful of the manifold ways of His love.
So I was sitting in my truck when a bright red cardinal started flying into the outside window next to me. Bam. Crash. Wham. Poor little guy. (I feel like that sometimes). But I did some research on it.
They are trying to process their reflection and think it is another bird. It hit me that this is like what it is like to actually “see” the love God. He loves everyone as you are where you are. God so loves the world. When you see your yourself in the love of God you catch a glimpse or your own beauty in Him.
What significance does our life really have in the fast paced measure of TIME on earth. The actual substance of eternal life is meant to pass through us to others as we live in the love of the living Jesus. No greater joy. Even Jesus says giving eternal life is more filling than any meal a starving could eat (Jn4).
To think our lives are seen and measure by the Spirit of God and our quality of love is a beautiful thing. It requires no degree, except in reality. I stand in humble awe of what I know God alone has done and is doing, hoping others will see and understand my life is only but a witness and testimony to the living Lord Jesus. Our lives are meant to matter to others by the depth of love we can show them in this span we call TIME. It is only out of my broken and shattered tragedy and trauma that I have brought my sacrifice to the Lord God and Judge of the universe.
I pray my TIME spent may motivate others to realize life is not about our meager life but the conscious awareness of purpose we are granted in the knowledge of God Who implants in our heart the purpose of redemption in Christ that He yearns for anyone, no matter how weak, how great of failure, how wicked or nothing might discover.
It is not flesh and blood but the power of the Spirit of God within our “earthen vessel” that the world is able to be touched by the living Savior.I have so many vivid memories of God’s hand in my life over TIME. What is the purpose of our TIME? So limited, in light of eternity, but in every moment we never think it will come to an end. Time has a power that keeps our focus on the here and now. So how is that we can grasp an accurate gage on the our purpose in TIME?
The purpose we pursue is determined by the reality, not in our words, but what is within us that propels u
s to live. I reflect back on my time gone by as little child, teenager, young adult and so many years in travels throughout 60 countries. In them I see the. purpose of God teaching, leading, protecting and opening up countless for us to bring, not a generic love, but a depth of personal touch.
Who am I to deserve such favor? I entered a destiny found as I contemplated the life of Jesus in a serious focus around the age of 18. I made a “deal” with God that I would abandon my “life of crime” and pursue Him. Over several years I desperately sought His Spirit. Not having a clue to what this meant. I made All-City wrestling and fullback in Grand Rapids, Michigan and ultimately earned a full-ride scholarship to Central Michigan University.
These awards got my attention because in reality I never saw myself as an elite athlete but rather just average. All my accomplishments were not really a matter of talent but a Viking like will of a savage to stand for Jesus in this wicked desperate world. All things work together, and God uses all things, to lead us to Him if indeed we are of such a heart to seek Him.
I have spent tens of thousands of hours in innumerable places contemplating how to reach this world with Jesus. At every mention of His Name men flee or cringe because they know not the One Who eyes are like fire and dwells in inapproachable light. Yet He washed the feet of His brothers and sat long hours with prostitutes and wicked men of complex background. How is it that man can reach into another man in such way so that his wicked heart is not threatened or pressured but warmed, held and expanded?
Last summer we brought Jesus into Poland, Bucharest, Czech, Spain, Ireland, Scotland and England. We were in awe of seeing the Spirit work in men in such suffering. TO BE CONTINUED…..