In Deed and in Truth

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 John 3:18

 Let's just imagine for a moment that you are one of the few Christians in your work or school environment. You and a couple of other people, who are not Christians, overhear of someone's desperate need. You have regular contact with this person, and you find this person to be more of an annoyance than anything else. So, you ignore the problem and just assume that it will get better by itself, and think nothing more of it. Well, one of your non-Christian associate's heart just breaks for this person, and the person does something about the need. When the needy person finds out that someone has made an anonymous gift, the needy person is just overjoyed (..."like Christmas come early, or late... its just a good Christmas present").

 

How would you feel if you were the Christian? Do you ever get indifferent about the needs of others? How do you feel towards the "least of these?" The Bible tells us that what we have done unto the least, we have done to Him. It is amazing to me how often that I as a Christian am just indifferent to the needs of others. Sometimes, I am just willfully ignorant of other people's needs. I pray that God would once again soften our hearts to show love to those who many would deem unloveable. It may be something so small and insignificant, but very meaningful to people who need so much.

 

  Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.(Hebrews 13:20-21)

 

BD