Posts Tagged ‘Compassion’

You know what gives me hope? My brothers and sisters in Christ. That’s what gives me hope.

I recently received an email from a friend. She had set up a fund at her church to help a mutual friend pay for her son’s cancer treatments. This email outlined how I could help with the effort, complete with mailing address and how the whole process was going to work:

Donate.
Collect.
Send a letter.
Bless.
Pray.

She clearly outline what our friend needed, how the donations would be collected, when they would be sent to our friend and how we could pray for her in the meantime.

She did this all on her own, too. No one pressuring her. No one guilting her into aiding a fellow sister in Christ. Just pure initiative based on a prompting from the Holy Spirit. Her “compassion reflex” is working. I cannot tell you how refreshing this is.

No hurdles needed to be cleared.
No spiritual bureaucracy.
No special fund with a board of advisors needed to be set up.

Just action. Pure, Holy-Spirit-breathed action.

Think about it: Is there someone in your life right now who could use some help like this? I promise you it’s easier than you think. What might God be calling you to do today?