What is compassion fatigue and who has it? Who suffers with that really needed compassion for others...........to love others as we love ourselves? Maybe you know someone who has that kind of "compassion fatigue" for another!
Today we find many people are "compassion fatigued". They rather shoot now and talk later. Yikes! But to have compassion for others is to know that love and compassion of the Father. He the Creator of heaven and earth. He called God, who planned for man to be made. And many people, unbeliever’s and believer’s today like to play that card of “love your neighbor as you love yourself” and sneer to make demands on others for the vaccination and such! You know it for you have heard it too: “you do this and do it now!”
But Scripture tells us to love God first and to love Him with all our heart, soul and
strength.
Mark 12:30 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the
first commandment. 31 and the second, like it, is this: You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.
1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God and keep His commandments.
So how many are keeping God’s commands? You know the one like loving God first and with all our heart?
IN keeping step with God, we know His love and be filled with
that love ( agape’ kind of love) especially when you spend time in worship to Him and in reading 1 John, 2
John and 3 John. But some keep their belief of love is all the same, even like
God’s, but it is not.
I know some who are just keeping an agenda for the means to a
certain end. But they should know God has the last word in this! Psalm 2:4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision. 5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure:
This Lord is lower case "lord" meaning Jesus the Lord. He shall hold them in derision. Yes, have you read the book of Revelation. I am so surprised many times by the though process of many Christians thinking Jesus turns the cheek at every situation of anger or harm. They seem to view Jesus as there but just to blend in. No blending end, one loses their doorway. They try to leave by the exit door when trying something knew like drugs and they find themselves following a path into a brown paper bag.
Loving God is really knowing Him. And knowing Him is through His
Son Jesus Christ. And the way is present in Him. It is a narrow gate. Is
singular with Him indeed. And we know Him better the more we call out His name,
HIM who lives and not by calling out a dead person’s name.
That only brings what dark activity they were in before their dying.
Compassion is only in God and it is where justice is found! COMPASSION:
in the Hebrew......mercy....to be gentle to another. ....to have concern for
another.........
Psalm 103:11-14...........11 For as the heavens are high above the earth,
So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him;
12 As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
13 As a father pities his children,
So the LORD pities those who fear Him.
14 For He knows our frame;
He remembers that we are dust. NKJV
This verse in Psalm 103 reminds of His great mercy toward those
who fear HIM! It reminds us that His great compassion exceeded what many
believed could happen, but hoped for, as the prophets saw the coming of a
Savior to the World. They saw the day when Jesus would appear and all things
would change for good! Amen.
MERCY: OT: 2617...........checed (kheh'-sed);
from OT:2616; kindness; by implication (that placed toward God) piety: rarely
(by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty:
KJV - a good (-liness, -ness) deed, kindly, (as in loving-), merciful
(kindness), mercy
So in understanding the compassion Jesus has, we must have that
same compassion. It is in spending time with the God of love who has compassion
on mankind to send a Savior. How great is His mercy toward those who fear Him. He
remembers we are dust!
I think how awesome that when we show a fear to HIM, a fear to our God that He
is God, giving an honor and respect to Him, and seeing this beauty and yes as a reproof to us that shows to the
outside world we are different. Displaying a character of God, by showing a
beauty that is merciful, is displayed in loving those who may not look like us,
sound like us and dress like us. We are to be like Jesus displayed for all to
see!
These specific ingredients are found in the kingdom of God, is
not found among man’s plan or instructions. No the kingdom came through Jesus,
and that is a merciful God who desired His children to live by faith in His
Son!
Matthew 5:7......7 Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy. NIV
Again these come about by knowing God and His God-kind of love
and compassion.
Romans 12:9-17......................9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor
what is evil. Cling to what is good. 10 Be kindly affectionate to one another
with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; 11 not lagging
in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope,
patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; 13 distributing to
the needs of the saints, given to hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute
you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with
those who weep. 16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind
on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own
opinion. 17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the
sight of all men. NKJV
So meditating on Romans 12 and starting in verse 9 that love is
to be without hypocrisy.
It is to be a compassion believer that has no deceit, but speaks truth.
It is a compassion that has no "masks", no covering up, but a true
upright heart looking out for another person. It is one that does not trick
another but speaks and operates in an openness to benefit another person’s
care.
We become the "good report" on another person. We
become the voice that lifts up the weary, the defeated, that one which the
world says is different because of color, or ethnicity or even by youth. God
created us in His image and that certainly means to look like Him, sound like
Him and act as He would act in any given situation.
Our Character would appear as:
1. giving preference to another
2. not lagging in being diligent to do what we can for the
weary, like Jesus feeding them the Word and feeding them with the natural to
keep their bodies going
3.fervent with a fire in our spirit man to light other's with a
fire for the things of God
4.serving the Lord to how He has called us to serve
Him.....giving Him glory for all that happens in your life
5.rejoicing in hope with everyone, even the low, the broken in
heart, the downcast, those who have lost their effectiveness in serving the
Lord
6.patient in tribulation, lifting the name of Jesus and have a
camp around the Word that gives a yell that the victory is ours
7.continuing in prayer, just like we saw Jesus do, day in and day
out......
8. distribute that which should go to the saints in
regard.......to.........their raiment, food or any need considerable for them
at the time
9.showing hospitality to those who come
10. bless and do not curse
And wrap all this up in the verse 9 Let love be without
hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. Wrap all this in that
compassionate love that abhors what is evil and will not participate with evil
toward another human being or created thing of God and then have no thought BUT
TO CLING TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD FOR ALL!
Sounds easy, right? Must not be for there are many today who are
"compassion fatigued"!
Isaiah 50:4...............4 "The Lord GOD has given Me
The tongue of the learned,
That I should know how to speak
A word in season to him who is weary.
He awakens Me morning by morning,
He awakens My ear
To hear as the learned. NKJV
OT:3287.....ya` eph (yaw-afe';) from OT:3286; fatigued;
exhausted
KJV - the faint, the weary.
Like Isaiah, we can speak a word in season to him who is weary.......him who is fatigued and exhausted, the one who is faint and about to drop. We can speak to someone who "left church" a while ago, and we can speak to the baker or the butcher who just needs the Word of life. Will you speak it?
Pray to have the boldness to speak now to others and speak truth
with no masks, no jumping through hoops, but display the beauty of God in the
place we meet someone who is weary, dry, and exhausted. Speak in that strength
of loving God with all your heart to reach out to others, not for an agenda but
that which is life in the Lord. You may
be the one who keeps them from making a "bad" move towards another
and keep them all safe by speaking the powerful Word of God into people's lives!
Value His presence above all else. Today, we believe and expect
to be that "one" who will move and give the Word of God, that will
empower others to be refreshed and keep them from the wiles of the enemy.
God first with all our heart, soul and strength. AND then God in His love in our hearts will flow out to our neighbor, for only then is alignment for truth exhibited and obeyed for all to see the glory of the Lord in this place. Amen.
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