You have a friend in life that you feel safe to confine into and bare your emotions? Someone who would be worth thousand of dollars as a counselor, however, they listen and are willing to hear your words and understand your heart simply because of their chastity. Such a person can place their hands upon you with an intensity of a physical touch which can bring you to tears as you’re growing through seasons in life with suffering, plus, connect on a level of deep intimacy with a simple hug. My wife when we first were married and we were feeling our aftermath, honeymoon phase, would tell me when I would hug her, she would feel that the demons would flee. People are involved with relationships, plus, live within communities to assist one another in carrying our burdens. Who can measure or compare their pain against their neighbor or someone else? To them (our neighbor) their pain hurts; to us our pain hurts. Empathy is connecting on that level of pain which one can identify. Pain cannot be measured; it can only be felt. Our culture engulfs the meaning of the church to embrace healing within the environment. The healing is market to the ones who are suffering within the community. The church within a culture should resemble the nature of a hospital within a community.
A hospital is a business which helps the sick, ill and disable. This very concept captures the heart to the “why” of a hospital business. The way to make money is to understand people then find a way to help the people whom you understand. In return you are able to make a profit. The concept behind the flow of currency or the way money is made is that you add value to the world, and you compensated for that value. Everything is relevant when talking about money. People become very emotionally attached. The reason for the feelings is not always good reasons. Human nature tends to bring one’s heart to a darker character when dealing with the nature of money. Jesus says it is more difficult for a rich man to enter into the gates of heaven than it is for a camel to go through an eye of a needle. (SPIRITUAL REFLECTION: Mathew 19: 23 & 24)
Read these scriptures Mathew Chapter 7: 7& 8 then verses 13& 14
The question to ask is why only a few find the narrow road? Which road is easier to find then travel, the wide road or the narrow road? Answer: the wide road. What is the difference of something that is difficult and something which is impossible? Difficult is a hard task or something which takes much work and/or force to complete. Something that is impossible cannot be done.
It reads in Hebrew 11:6- “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him”
Why only a few find the narrow road? Answer: only a few truly seek it. Knowledge change one perspective of reality. In today’s generation, spiritual maturity, to accept and express simple spiritual characteristics of humanity is demanded among the churches of the nations. The seven churches referred to in Chapter two and three of the Book of Revelation in the Bible reflects the maturity of the first Christian churches. We see from the Book of Acts, Jesus’ desired Christians to cultivate His nature within our relationships and communities throughout the world. This is the only way to win the heart of humanity and overcome evil within humankind. This is the plan; there is no Plan “B”. God desires His name and Word to grow through generations much as you would use and see manure enrich the soil for plants to grow in forest and gardens.
Read this foundation which God established among His people in the scripture in the Book of Deuteronomy Chapter 6, Verses 1-5- “These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observes in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, so that you, your children and their children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you”
This is the heart of our God. Who will carry the banner for our God?