Wow!

I was working on my nightly Bible Study, and I just had to share.  It was titled "Look to the Left, Look to the Right".  It started out with the Scripture Reading of Matthew 9:35-38.  The Key Verse being, "He (Jesus) felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd."  Matthew 9:36

Wow, kind of gives you a whole different aspect!  In today's time, we hear all about bombings, murder, gangs, starving families, etc.  We either read about them in the paper, see it on the news, and mainly now we see it all over facebook.  But with everything that we either see, read, or hear, we are starting as a whole to desensitize to all the bad news.  We tend to think if it doesn't affect us and our friends, we tend to turn our heads and look the other way.  Maybe instead of looking to the left and to the right, we should look UP toward our AMAZING GOD and say a prayer for all of those people caught up in distress.  We may not be able to donate money to Africa, but we can look closer to us and buy some groceries for a family that we know are having a hard time.  Something like that.  If you cannot afford it, do the best thing which is PRAY!  Lift them up in prayer.  God hears and answers!  I pray that us as a whole will become aware of people who are distressed and downcasted and we take on one of Jesus' character traits which is compassion!  A little compassion can go a long way.  And just think what can happen if each and every one us did just an ounce of compassion...those ounces even add up to become HUGE! 

"There is no excuse better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."--John Andrew Holmes

As I close this blog, I will leave it with one more quote. 
"Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our power.  Whatever He demands of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need." --Francois de La Nothe-Fenelon

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Lauren