Compassion
Monday, February 26, 2007
The scriptures say that Jesus “was moved with compassion” at a number of different points.
My problem is not that I don’t have compassion, it just doesn’t move me.
I am so absolutely tired of talking about helping homeless people, and poor people, and Africa, when in reality that is all I really do. So do most of us. Compassion is nothing until it moves me.
This week, I saw some poor little ducks in a little canal that were literally trapped in some garbage bags. I walked on and thought about how sad that was. I told all my friends how poorly we take care of the world, how a poor little duck can’t even live.
Then…
I realized I didn’t do a darn thing about. So I sprung into action. I grabbed 8 of my other friends in a class I teach at our church, and we skipped church to pick up garbage at that canal. I felt like it was more church than anything I have ever done.
God is teaching me that REAL church begins as soon as our church SERVICES end. It is then that we get to be the church…but everything up to that…is just talk.