Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering.
Oh Friends, we’ve all awakened to another beautiful day in paradise! Yes, we’ve not read our names in today’s obits. (smile) So let’s all give the Lord a hearty round of applause and a loud, ‘Thank you Lord! We praise your Holy Name, and will surely endeavour to walk worthy of you today on this rough and rugged earthly journey, graced with your mercy and salvation, ending in eternal life with You. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen!’ And now Friends, in order to keep that promise we just made to our God, it’s necessary that we live our lives a certain way, with a certain number of virtues first and foremost. Let’s begin with what Bruh Paul terms ‘bowels of mercies,’ or ‘tender mercies,’ or ‘compassion.’ The dictionary describes ‘compassion’ as ‘pity inclining one to spare or help, or sympathetic pitying.’ Nowadays pity isn’t politically correct, the word in vogue now is ’empathy,’ that’s defined as ‘the power of projecting one’s personality into (and so fully comprehending) the object of contemplation.’ Hn! Two words my people; pity and empathy, similar but different. The first assumes that we don’t understand the situation at hand, it’s not heart felt, we might just be operating from pride and ego, while the other projects us into the situation, assuming that we’ll better understand it then. However Friends, the most important aspect of both words is that they conjure up the vision of HELP! And that’s what Christians are supposed to be all about; helping the needy in whatever they’re needy of. It can be the rich, the poor, or the in-between, we all have needs that we can’t meet personally, but that others can help us with. Now hear this most appropriate passage from 1 John. ‘But whoso hath this world’s good (goods, things), and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels (heart) of compassion from him, how dwelleth the LOVE of God in him?’ (1 John 3:17) Exactly my people! If we see a person in need, and we have the ability to help and don’t, how the dickens can we talk about LOVING God eh? How can we LOVE God, whom we’ve not seen, and NOT LOVE the brother we’ve seen? Oh Friends, that’s simply not the Christian way. Remember all Jesus asked us to do was to LOVE God and to LOVE EACH OTHER THE WAY He, Jesus LOVED us. And mih breddren, there’s a whole heap of people in this evil and cruel world, not only in faraway, undeveloped countries, but right by our doorstep, who desperately need help, who desperately need LOVE, whom we can both HELP and LOVE! Just this week I read that the Food Bank situation is worsening everyday. More and more people are going there for help, although the supposed experts say that the economy is improving. Well tell that to those who don’t have jobs nuh, or have such low paying jobs they still can’t make ends meet. Just imagine it nuh mih people, in this First world country, wonderful Canada, Food banks are a necessity. In the U.S too, apparently the rise in food-stamp usage is also very noticeable. People are going hungry in countries where food is thrown away and wasted like you wouldn’t believe! Hn! And then we pipe up about being such big believers and worthy Christians. Steups! Nonsense mih Friends! We’re just big hypocrites, like the Pharisees of Jesus’ time, masquerading as Christians! Oh my people, as I keep reminding us, Christianity is an action not a talk word, and if we’re not doing something to help others, then we’re not truly living the Christian life. It’s that pure and simple mih people! All of us who receive this Bit, and read or don’t read it, are in a position to help someone else in some way or another, and if we don’t, then we’re not true believers. Look at Jesus nuh! Everyday of His earthly life He was concerned about helping others; not only the poor and downtrodden, but the rich and famous too, if they were willing to listen. Granted, we can never be as good as Jesus, but our mission is to be as good as we can. Unfortunately though Friends, we’re not doing as well as we can, that’s why there’s so much ‘sufferation’ in our land, in our world. ‘Sufferation’ that should never be taking place with the high state of technology, medicine, economics, education, charity, etc. that we’ve accomplished. In the Bit, Bruh Paul talks about things like kindness… Oh mih people, when last have we done an individual act of kindness eh? Held a door open for somebody; helped an older person to cross the street, or helped carry their groceries, even offered a thirsty person a glass of water, or a sad person a smile? Yes, those are all small things, but they are kindnesses too, and go a long way to helping ease the hurt and pain of another’s life, plus they add rewards to your personal heavenly account. Oh Friends, we all know that the big things are important, but so are the small ones. Please remember that, and whatever little acts of kindness we can do, now note with the right heart, the right motive, will count for much in the Lord’s eyes. I think I’ll stop there for today Friends, for what I want to say will make it a tad too long, and I don’t want to give us too much to digest all at once. (smile) So we’ll continue this topic tomorrow, God willing of course. And why shouldn’t He, since we’re only trying to spread His Word, further His Kingdom and glorify His Holy Name. Till tomorrow then, Much LOVE!…the true believer is action oriented…a doer…rather than a talker…
Oh Friends, we’ve all awakened to another beautiful day in paradise! Yes, we’ve not read our names in today’s obits. (smile) So let’s all give the Lord a hearty round of applause and a loud, ‘Thank you Lord! We praise your Holy Name, and will surely endeavour to walk worthy of you today on this rough and rugged earthly journey, graced with your mercy and salvation, ending in eternal life with You. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen!’ And now Friends, in order to keep that promise we just made to our God, it’s necessary that we live our lives a certain way, with a certain number of virtues first and foremost. Let’s begin with what Bruh Paul terms ‘bowels of mercies,’ or ‘tender mercies,’ or ‘compassion.’ The dictionary describes ‘compassion’ as ‘pity inclining one to spare or help, or sympathetic pitying.’ Nowadays pity isn’t politically correct, the word in vogue now is ’empathy,’ that’s defined as ‘the power of projecting one’s personality into (and so fully comprehending) the object of contemplation.’ Hn! Two words my people; pity and empathy, similar but different. The first assumes that we don’t understand the situation at hand, it’s not heart felt, we might just be operating from pride and ego, while the other projects us into the situation, assuming that we’ll better understand it then. However Friends, the most important aspect of both words is that they conjure up the vision of HELP! And that’s what Christians are supposed to be all about; helping the needy in whatever they’re needy of. It can be the rich, the poor, or the in-between, we all have needs that we can’t meet personally, but that others can help us with. Now hear this most appropriate passage from 1 John. ‘But whoso hath this world’s good (goods, things), and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels (heart) of compassion from him, how dwelleth the LOVE of God in him?’ (1 John 3:17) Exactly my people! If we see a person in need, and we have the ability to help and don’t, how the dickens can we talk about LOVING God eh? How can we LOVE God, whom we’ve not seen, and NOT LOVE the brother we’ve seen? Oh Friends, that’s simply not the Christian way. Remember all Jesus asked us to do was to LOVE God and to LOVE EACH OTHER THE WAY He, Jesus LOVED us. And mih breddren, there’s a whole heap of people in this evil and cruel world, not only in faraway, undeveloped countries, but right by our doorstep, who desperately need help, who desperately need LOVE, whom we can both HELP and LOVE! Just this week I read that the Food Bank situation is worsening everyday. More and more people are going there for help, although the supposed experts say that the economy is improving. Well tell that to those who don’t have jobs nuh, or have such low paying jobs they still can’t make ends meet. Just imagine it nuh mih people, in this First world country, wonderful Canada, Food banks are a necessity. In the U.S too, apparently the rise in food-stamp usage is also very noticeable. People are going hungry in countries where food is thrown away and wasted like you wouldn’t believe! Hn! And then we pipe up about being such big believers and worthy Christians. Steups! Nonsense mih Friends! We’re just big hypocrites, like the Pharisees of Jesus’ time, masquerading as Christians! Oh my people, as I keep reminding us, Christianity is an action not a talk word, and if we’re not doing something to help others, then we’re not truly living the Christian life. It’s that pure and simple mih people! All of us who receive this Bit, and read or don’t read it, are in a position to help someone else in some way or another, and if we don’t, then we’re not true believers. Look at Jesus nuh! Everyday of His earthly life He was concerned about helping others; not only the poor and downtrodden, but the rich and famous too, if they were willing to listen. Granted, we can never be as good as Jesus, but our mission is to be as good as we can. Unfortunately though Friends, we’re not doing as well as we can, that’s why there’s so much ‘sufferation’ in our land, in our world. ‘Sufferation’ that should never be taking place with the high state of technology, medicine, economics, education, charity, etc. that we’ve accomplished. In the Bit, Bruh Paul talks about things like kindness… Oh mih people, when last have we done an individual act of kindness eh? Held a door open for somebody; helped an older person to cross the street, or helped carry their groceries, even offered a thirsty person a glass of water, or a sad person a smile? Yes, those are all small things, but they are kindnesses too, and go a long way to helping ease the hurt and pain of another’s life, plus they add rewards to your personal heavenly account. Oh Friends, we all know that the big things are important, but so are the small ones. Please remember that, and whatever little acts of kindness we can do, now note with the right heart, the right motive, will count for much in the Lord’s eyes. I think I’ll stop there for today Friends, for what I want to say will make it a tad too long, and I don’t want to give us too much to digest all at once. (smile) So we’ll continue this topic tomorrow, God willing of course. And why shouldn’t He, since we’re only trying to spread His Word, further His Kingdom and glorify His Holy Name. Till tomorrow then, Much LOVE!…the true believer is action oriented…a doer…rather than a talker…
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