Life is Precious!

I feel overwhelmed by the needs of God's children. Not just within His church, but those who do not know Him. So many live their lives for the things of this world. We are in a place and time in which the things of this world are quickly fading. People are losing their homes, families are losing hope for their future, feelings of despair hang heavy in the air. We all walk around, passing each other, with blinders on and with a falseness that screams louder than our words. At what point do we surrender? When do we, as God's people do the simple task of reaching out? Not just throwing money to someone, but listening to their story, investing in their lives, surrounding them with God's love and abundance. Only God gives us the ability to do that but if we stifle His voice with everything of this world,  we allow Him to be drowned out. We can not walk in this world and make a difference if we are not willing to be the change that is needed. We have to be different, willing to risk, to be hurt, to simply, and yet, the most difficult, to love. We have to stop passing judgement on others with our piousness. The Bible speaks clearly that we are to love, the most important way to offer hope is by loving and standing beside the hurting and abused, the forgotten and ignored. How can we continue to place so much of who we are into so much of what God is not? I don't believe God wants His words to fall on deaf ears, He wants to save His people! We are the tools to reach the dying and hopeless. How many books have been written, songs sung and sermons preached and yet we are still falling short. Not just locally but globally. Father, give us your eyes to see what we can not see, to feel the hurt and pain of a hurting people but most of all...change our hearts to love with a reckless abandon. Extend our arms to reach around a broken people and quicken the pace of our footsteps so we don't waste one more moment!