Oh if we could see the imprisoned hearts around us… there are days where weariness withholds my own vision. It’s not that Christ isn’t trying to show them to me…it’s merely that I refuse to see. I may be overwhelmed with a list of obligations…yet miss His altogether. For nothing is more important than the hearts of men. His proclamation of anointed obligations in Isaiah 61 is a constant reminder to my own heart. If He was called to it….then we must also be. For He now lives in us. If I find myself so busy that I can no longer love on those in need…then Satan has gotten me bound to his own work…and I, even this week, confessed a string of distractions. Distractions will cause a love-less heart…and fruit will begin to grow distant. Our compassion for others will lessen quickly and urgency to tend the broken will become almost non-existent. This is so not a place I desire to be….and in those moments as I sit before Him and He begins to whisper ever so gently…simplify…I put my list before Him…and allow Him the honor of erasing all that He desires… Then I will be ready to “throw a rope” to any fellow brothers and sisters deserted, shipwrecked, or wounded from the war.
Will someone throw a rope
For I am sore in need
Will you just walk on by
Or listen to my pleas.
The prison is so deep
I cannot find a gate
My destiny is tied
To one who lends escape.
I’ve waited many years
And heard the passers by
Many speak of Christ
But turn a blinded eye.
Time is taken much
And soon you say you’ll come
Yet many years are passed
And me with iron rungs.
I don’t need very much
Just love that gives a thrust
Who ties a rope up tight
And bends to give a tug.
Please lower down thy lamp
You’ll see my sorrowed eyes
Unless you are but busy
And continue passing by.
December 21, 2015
Philippians 2:4
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Philippians 2:4
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Galatians 6:2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Matthew 25:44-45
Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’
