Dead Eyes, Dead Ears, Dead Hearts

I pulled up the news today . . . as I do everyday. I was gripped by a headline that said "Dead Bodies Are Everywhere" . . .

I read the story, or most of it, and my insides just sunk. Chaos. Destruction. & People just "gone" in a blink . . . again. . .

Then I thought of how many times we hear things like this or see news clips about this kind of thing and just "click" move on to another channel or to another conversation. & My heart sank again.

We are highly desensitized. We are complacent about things going on much further than our own doorstep or at least the doorsteps of those we love. & We are lackadaisical, at best, with the all God gives us.


"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"
LUKE 10:27 NIV

Rarely do any of us get the first one right---at least all the time. & Certainly the second part we don't seem to accomplish either.

I am sure there are some out there . . . but generally, overall, . . . our hearts DON'T break, our eyes don't weep . . .

We don't think much past the second of hearing something awful happening down the street, let alone around the world . . .

We don't don't grieve with the grieving, especially if they aren't from home . . .

& Yet, so many around the world have had such a tougher way to go than everyone that lives here. & They have lived it out day by day over and over and over again . . .

WHERE ARE WE?

Where are at least the intercessors continuously sending up prayers for villages and cities and countries and people????

Where are the ones that still care . . . that see past the news clip and whose hearts just break at the devastation and the heartbreak of people down the street or ones they may never know?

We understand how to send money and most don't want to do that----

But I'm not even talking about that. I am talking about humanity and our God, who says that we are to love HIM and LOVE THEM . . .

Yet, for most of us, all that, people we don't know in general, really aren't much more than a thought . . . and sometimes it's not even that.

GOD FORGIVE US.

Today, let us drop color and nationality and belief. We know Whose we are----- & We know Who IS. Let us all take some time to at lest pray so that all of them might know also. & Let us pray for them, . . . even those that hate us. Why? because we are commanded to. & Because if we love as He said, . . . we would want to anyway.

& Then let us spend some time thanking God for the tremendous blessing we got just by being born where we are . . .

And the fact that He is so very merciful with us-------- because we don't do as he asked and we don't do it on a regular basis.

Lord let us be more mindful from this day on . . .

IN the Name of JESUS, Amen.