For more laborious that can be, plow your heart; otherwise you will follow vanities (Part 2).
We need to exercise “empathy”. At first place, “empathy” is different from “sympathy”.
“Sympathy” is that capacity of coping with people in a gregarious way, always with alacrity and opened mind to welcome everybody.
“Empathy” is deeper. It is the ability to exercise compassion, that is to say, to hear carefully the person and be able to think and feel like him/her, in the reality that he/she are living.
Our lean is to run away from people that discomfit us, as well as situations that harass or even put us in jeopardy. Nonetheless, did you take heed on what people, in the Holy Scripture, had to do so that they could get the blessing? They had to go out of their comfort zone and go toward the defiance:
1 – Abraham had to come out of his country, kindred, house and go toward somewhere unknown (Gen 12:1; 15:5; Heb 11:8).
2 – Deborah had to stand up and go with Barack toward the powerful army of Jabin, king of Canaan, so that Israel could be free (Judge 4:9).
3 – Elijah, ALONE, had to climb up the Carmel and defy 450 prophets of Baal plus 400 prophets of Asherah to make Israel to know the Creator (1Kings 18:19).
4 – David drew near Goliath in order to free Israel from the Philistine (1Samuel 17:40).
See the case of David. At no moment he referred to Goliath as a giant, but only as a Philistine, that is to say, as someone that outraged the Creator and His people (1Sam 17:26).
What made difference in David’s life was his vision. As he knew the Creator, he didn’t have any doubt that Goliath already was a routed. David knew that it was impossible to lose because the war belongs to the Creator (1Sam 17:47) and when the Creator acts, who can hamper (Isa 43:13)?
5 – Jesus carried His cross until the Calvary (Luke 23:33).
It was when He gave up all everything in this life (Phil 2:5-8) that He inherit a name over all name (Phil 2:9), sit to the right hand of the Creator (Acts 2:34; Heb 1:13; 1Pet 3:22), saw all the fruit of His good work (Isa 53:11) and is patiently biding until that all His enemies, for sure, will be put under His feet (1Cor 15:25) and He, then, can marry His beautiful Bride (Rev 19:7).
Finally, what other people call problem, for you it is an opportunity to grow up and be prosperous. Perhaps, this is the proposal for which you were created..
Therefore, don’t take flight of annoying or hazardous people. Ask Jesus His supernatural power and have a good day allowing Him to use these people to treat your heart, so that you can partake if His sainthood (Heb 12:10) and, thus, you can be useful in His hands and, thereby, saved.
We need to exercise “empathy”. At first place, “empathy” is different from “sympathy”.
“Sympathy” is that capacity of coping with people in a gregarious way, always with alacrity and opened mind to welcome everybody.
“Empathy” is deeper. It is the ability to exercise compassion, that is to say, to hear carefully the person and be able to think and feel like him/her, in the reality that he/she are living.
Our lean is to run away from people that discomfit us, as well as situations that harass or even put us in jeopardy. Nonetheless, did you take heed on what people, in the Holy Scripture, had to do so that they could get the blessing? They had to go out of their comfort zone and go toward the defiance:
1 – Abraham had to come out of his country, kindred, house and go toward somewhere unknown (Gen 12:1; 15:5; Heb 11:8).
2 – Deborah had to stand up and go with Barack toward the powerful army of Jabin, king of Canaan, so that Israel could be free (Judge 4:9).
3 – Elijah, ALONE, had to climb up the Carmel and defy 450 prophets of Baal plus 400 prophets of Asherah to make Israel to know the Creator (1Kings 18:19).
4 – David drew near Goliath in order to free Israel from the Philistine (1Samuel 17:40).
See the case of David. At no moment he referred to Goliath as a giant, but only as a Philistine, that is to say, as someone that outraged the Creator and His people (1Sam 17:26).
What made difference in David’s life was his vision. As he knew the Creator, he didn’t have any doubt that Goliath already was a routed. David knew that it was impossible to lose because the war belongs to the Creator (1Sam 17:47) and when the Creator acts, who can hamper (Isa 43:13)?
5 – Jesus carried His cross until the Calvary (Luke 23:33).
It was when He gave up all everything in this life (Phil 2:5-8) that He inherit a name over all name (Phil 2:9), sit to the right hand of the Creator (Acts 2:34; Heb 1:13; 1Pet 3:22), saw all the fruit of His good work (Isa 53:11) and is patiently biding until that all His enemies, for sure, will be put under His feet (1Cor 15:25) and He, then, can marry His beautiful Bride (Rev 19:7).
Finally, what other people call problem, for you it is an opportunity to grow up and be prosperous. Perhaps, this is the proposal for which you were created..
Therefore, don’t take flight of annoying or hazardous people. Ask Jesus His supernatural power and have a good day allowing Him to use these people to treat your heart, so that you can partake if His sainthood (Heb 12:10) and, thus, you can be useful in His hands and, thereby, saved.