Do You Have a Heart That is Easily Broken When You See the Plight of the Poor





A University student was heard to say that God can break your heart about things that break His heart every day. This student, I understand, was very much involved in working with the poor and also involved in prayer and praying about how service could be of the highest and finest and best quality possible.

That is quite a good place from which to start as we launch into 2010 and confronting the massive problems surrounding the needs around our pained world. There are many words being spoken but perhaps only a few broken hearts.

We so need to grow in our lives the fruit of the Holy Spirit. We so need love and joy and peace and all the other six aspects of the fruit. We so need patience and long suffering and self control to keep on serving the poor and facing up to the massive issues around the globe.

Paul placed love at the top of the list and perhaps for a very good reason, because it is only as we love that we are able to cry out in prayer to God for those who are living in such abject and miserable conditions.

Having been in the various slums in Kampala, Uganda, and Nairobi, Kenya, over these past six years, I have seen the plight of these dear people at first hand and those who are serving in the front line of need require to be encouraged and encouraged to continue.

Is that why Paul says in another place, that we are not to become weary in doing good? No matter how much good we may think we have done there will always be much much more to do!

This is why we need a deep compassion for desperate people across the world.

As we serve we do see joy. When we give something significant to an orphanage one can see the expression of joy on the faces of those who are on the receiving end. The children will receive something substantial to eat and their crying may not be so constant as a consequence of hunger pains.

As I write this, I can see the situation I have been in, and the blessing that being able to leave even a little can make, and especially when it reaches the front line of need.

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