Compassion Leads to Generosity

Compassion Leads To Generosity

This month, while the world seems to be going crazy yet again...

I want to write about what is most important to us and to the world. The only thing that matters. The only thing that will fix what's going on with this world today.....

Love and compassion.

So I will start this blog with my Bishop Henry Fernandez sermon, which just happens to be about...yes, you got it. Love and compassion.

Today's world seems to be a me...me...me world. 

What can I get? 

What's in it for me? 

What about me?

How do you like me? 

It seems like we've lost all of our love and compassion for our fellow man.

When your life is only about what you can get, what you can buy, or what is God going to give you, you lose sight of what Jesus was trying to teach us. Which is nothing is more important than love. So much so that the bible spoke of love 538 times! That is a lot of repeating of one thing... love.

Many people think that you have to suffer to be a good Christian, but God wants you to do well. He wants you to be a blessing to others but not at the price of your soul or your relationship with him.

We have driven ourselves to the brink of crazy to get more and do more that we have forgotten who we are, and who we were meant to be.

The first thing you need to have is compassion. You need to ask God what he wants you to do. You need to open your heart and listen. I remember one night when I went to church. I was recently divorced, and I had a hundred dollars on me for groceries. This was the only money I had. When I heard a voice say give this money to Iva, a friend of mine. At first, I thought I was crazy. I had never had this happen to me, hearing voices. I thought, no way, this was my grocery money. I hear the voice again and again, yet I am fighting, hoping this voice goes away. After the third time (Yes, I am hard-headed, read my previous blogs) So I say if I turn around and if she's the first person I see, I will give it to her. I knew I didn't see her in church, so this was me being cocky, like go ahead, show me. Well, I turned around and there she was and yes, I gave it to her. I did not know her struggles at that moment, but God did. She later told me she was having her electricity turned off in the morning and needed 97.00. 

This was a message for both of us because not only did it renew her faith as she was praying for this money that night at church but also for me as the following day I got three new clients. It showed me what God can do when you listen. I got my grocery money plus more, all because I listened, because I had faith and because I chose to put another person's needs before mine.

If you're only after stuff if it's all about you. If God is not the center of it all, you will die unfulfilled. All the money in the world doesn't bring you happiness. Believe me, I know that one firsthand.

You think, I"ll help when I am in a better place when I am taken care of... when....it's always when.

When I lose weight, when I get a better job when I find the perfect person. It's never going to be a perfect time.

Life is too short for when I...

It's about now. It's about doing and being the best you can be, now.

When you're on your dying bed, what will all the stuff matter?

What will working 80 hours a week get you?

Will all those likes be there to comfort you?

What will all the wealth you ran after get you?

In the end, you'll realize it's all about him. It's always been about him. Your creator, whoever that may be for you.

Our passions are making us go after the wrong things in life. It's all about us even in the church.

You come to church asking for things, you want to be filled up, you want an encouraging message, and you keep asking God for more and more but what do you bring to the table?

Do you praise him? Do you sing his praises? Have you read his word? Do you count your blessings even when things are not going well? What are you bringing to his table?

Just because you go to church doesn't make you a Christian. Just because you're busy in church doesn't make us Christian. It's just like sitting in a garage, doesn't make you a car.

What truly makes you a Christian is your compassion. 

We have lost our passion, and we have lost our compassion to help others. We lost our compassion to tell others about our faith.

We are so busy with our agenda that we can't stop and help one another. We have forgotten that we can be a blessing to others.

We have forgotten to

"Love your neighbor, like yourself,"

My Bishop finished off with a bible verse that told of a story of a man who had been robbed and beaten and then left for dead. A priest sees him and crosses the street, a Levite sees him and crosses the street but a samaritan stops and takes care of him, even putting him upon his donkey while he walks.

Yes, even in the church, we have people with no compassion. So we all need to change our ways, we need to be a blessing to others and listen to God's voice. We need to be the light that others see and then want to be like.

We need to love one another no matter what their political views are, what color their skin is, what their religious beliefs are, and what their sexual preference is. We need to start having compassion and love for one another. This is the only way we will grow, and the only way this world will change.

So today my friends remember, even in this it's all about me society, it really should be about love and compassion. Especially this holiday season. It's about bringing something to his table. At the end of our life, it's really going to be about about hearing his voice, say

"Well done, my child...well done,"

"Be the change you want to see”

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