Follow Compassion

Luke 7: 11-16

Sometimes I feel like I am not doing enough for God, there are so many people in need, and I just can never do enough. I know it is not about what I can do for God but what He can do through me, but sometimes I feel I am not really yielded to Him. When I think this way God reminds me that I am only part of the body of Christ not the complete thing, meaning I have only a part to play I cannot do it all. So how do I know what my place of ministry really is?

We see here in this passage that Jesus was being followed by a crowd and then He was moved by compassion while passing a funeral procession and spoke to widows son who had died and commanded Him to come back to life. So we learn here even though Jesus had a crowd of people following Him desperately in need He ministered to the one He had compassion for. Now there were times Jesus had compassion and healed all but this time His compassion was for this child and those who were mourning.

Ministry without compassion does not come from the heart but from obligation which can become religious. Yes, there is a time to serve wherever needed, but for our primary ministry compassion must be the driving force. None of us like to be served from people who don't really care, who are just serving to get paid or to look good. We enjoy being served from people that put their heart into it no matter how menial the service is. When I go to a store and am treated like I am a burden for shopping rather than getting their undivided attention, I don't want to come back. This is why many in the world who are searching come to a church service and never return, for it is our love for one another that draws people to God.

So many believers don't know what their calling is, but all we have to do is follow our heart. What moves us to compassion? What stirs our emotions, meaning what causes us to cry or get's us real angry, these emotions God has placed in us for a reason. We are all made up different and if each one just follows there heart not trying to be everyone and do everything, everyone and everything will be reached.

Now our hearts were completely wicked prior to coming to the Lord, but we are being transformed, He is changing our heart. In this process we may not have compassion for others, it maybe all about ourselves right now, and that is okay, there is a time to be healed and a time to heal others, but in due time compassion will come and we will just naturally know what our ministry really is.