When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
Matthew 9: 36-38
How do you view the people at work or in your family who do not follow Christ? Do you see them as opponents or as people who are blinded to their need of the Savior? Do you have compassion for them?
“I have long since ceased to pray, ‘Lord, have compassion on a lost world.’ I remember the day and the hour when I seemed to her the Lord rebuking me for making such a prayer. He seemed to say to me, ‘I have had compassion on a lost world, and now it is for you to have compassion.'”
A.J. Gordon
Many of the people around us are harassed, confused, helpless, and hopeless.
In his epistle Peter tells us to give “a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.”
When we view others with the kind of compassion God had on each of us, it will change the way we view our responsibility to stand for Christ with our lives and our words.
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