Compassion

I don’t think we notice this often enough, be we are simply lacking compassion. Maybe we do notice it, but we aren’t changing our habits. I don’t understand how we can identify a problem, and just not fix it. It seems completely ridiculous, not wanting to fix the fixable things. Either way, if we notice our lack of compassion or not, it doesn’t matter because the issue remains. We go through our days and not consider others, okay fine that only seems a little horrible. But it gets worse, we see others and whatever they are doing we just don’t like it. And we just decide they are weird, or not someone I care to know. Who are we to think that? To make decisions about others like that? We don’t even know them. A fine example of this, I met a girl and from the start I found her annoying. That night I went home and was like, I’m sorry to say this Lord but I just don’t want to become friends with her. And this is something I do often but I just didn’t want to get to know her. I know I’m horrible, I see it to. The next week sure enough I run into her again and she takes about 30 minutes to tell me her life story. It was crazy, yes I still found her annoying, but she needed someone to talk to. And the Lord knew I could be that person for her. Who am I to decide, who should be in my life? I do not know what’s best for me. I do not know what tomorrow holds. And I need to stop taking this initiative, because He knows better. He definitely showed me who was boss that evening, and I thank him for that. Looking at the situation now we are still friends, and I love it. She may not be the coolest kid on the block, but it doesn’t matter. She is a child of God, I am a child of God. And I should have never tried to take away the love respect that she deserves. Each day I find that we need to enter each situation with the Lord in mind. Is this always going to be possible? Probably not, we fail quite often. But this is his life, not mine. And if we believe that his will shall be done, then we need to let him take the wheel. Carrie Underwood was right; Jesus needs to take that gosh darn wheel, before we crash our cars, otherwise known as ruining our own lives. We need to enter each and every moment with love and patience. If I go days without those actions, my life has no purpose. Nothing matters but the Lord’s will for our lives, so take some time today and figure out what he’s trying to do with you. Heck, take as much time as you need to figure it out. But when you do, make yourself some kind of reminder that wherever you go, you have a greater purpose that should be fulfilled in whatever you do.