Instrument of healing!
Verse for Today: Saturday, March 02, 2013
Genesis 40:07 – “Why are your
faces so sad today?”
There is a growing indifference
among people about the difficulties of others. Often we keep away from others’
problems because we think we have enough of our own to handle. But our problems
are often windows through which we become aware of others’ problems and to help
them to handle theirs. Joseph has always been concerned about others. At seventeen,
he was willing to go after his brothers to inquire about their welfare. In the
prison he was not only a servant of the prisoners, but a concerned counselor.
When he saw their dejected and sad faces, he inquired about it out of concern.
He could have ignored it because he had his own hurt due to unlawful
imprisonment. But he ignored his situation for a moment and expressed his
concern about others. His father Jacob was a destitute, but he was keen to help
to get water for the sheep at the well where he met Rachel. We see this
attitude of concern in Joseph when he dealt with his brothers before and after
they settled in Egypt. Moses as a runaway youth had concern for the helpless
shepherdess girls. While in prison, Paul was more concerned about the
sufferings of others than his own. The Lord Jesus demonstrated this concern
while on the cross and welcomed a dying soul to heaven. Today we are placed in
a brutal world with the ministry of concern for others. Joseph challenges us to
forget for a moment about our own pain, misery and persecution, and help,
support and strengthen those who are going through battles in life. God will
use such initiatives to forget our own problems. He wants us to serve others
with the grace He has given us. It might be possible that such responses will
help us also with our own conditions.
Dear friend, have you been dumped
by your situations and circumstances into the dark dungeons of life? Perhaps
you are sunk deep in self-pity and feel griped because of the unfair treatment thrust
upon you. But if you want true joy and deliverance from the predicament that
you are in, focus your attention on others who are suffering. If you share the
power of God to work in the difficult circumstances of other lives, you will
find divine joy filling your life. When we look at others through the eyes of
Jesus as He looked at the thief on the cross, we will be able to recognize and
minster unto the dejected, depressed and battered lives. If you share the grace
of God in your life with them, they will taste grace in their hearts. Perhaps
they might forget what you have done for them, but you are being used as an
instrument of God in their lives. Only those who know the Great Physician can
take sick people to Him for healing, peace and comfort. Perhaps there are those
who want to talk to someone about their burdens, but do not know if we would
listen. So let us today forget our own pain and depravity and become sensitive
to the needs of others. Every person we meet leaves us with an opportunity to
minister unto. Every opportunity we get to see a sad face is God’s message for
us to touch that life with the healing and soothing hand of Jesus. Every hurt
in this world needs the Balm of Gilead, our Lord Jesus, who is the panacea for
all the ills of humanity. When we pour out the Living Water, it will lead
others to quench their thirst, cool their burning emotions and settle the turmoil
in their lives. Let us today act as salt
to heal the emotional sickness of those who come our way. Let us melt away so
that other lives will become enriched with Jesus.
2 Corinthians 6:10 – Our
hearts ache, but we always have joy. We are poor, but we give spiritual riches
to others. We own nothing, and yet we have everything. (NLT)
Thought for Today
Alleviating the pain of others make us forget our own miseries.
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