Good Morning Friends,
“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in
behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light
will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.”
(Isaiah 58:9-10)
There are hurting people all around us. They
are in our offices, our neighborhoods, our classrooms, our families. They are wounded
by the words of others. They are hurt by the actions done to them. They are in
need because of the circumstances of their lives.
We see them, although often we do not notice
them. Sometimes, perhaps often, we contribute to their hurt. Our words are the
words that wound. Our actions are the actions that hurt. We contribute to the
circumstances that leave them in need.
God cares for the wounded, the hurt, the needy.
God is calling us to care for them, too. He call us not to just care for them
in our hearts, but to care for them with our mouths and our hands and our
wallets. God calls us to take action to demonstrate our care.
There are words that soothe and actions that
help. Those actions will be pleasing to God. Let those be the words and the
actions that come from our mouths and hands.
Let’s keep our eyes open, there are people
around us who could use a kind word or deed from us.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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