Sharing God’s Gifts: A Call for Compassion and Responsibility
- By candidasullivan
- October 4, 2024
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God has given us all blessings and unique gifts to share. We have something the world needs. When we all lovingly and willingly share what God has given us with others who need it, we have abundance and love flowing freely. But we create pain and lack if we hide our gifts and refuse to help those in need.
A visual example of this is if we all decided to eat together. If we all arrived at the table with what God put on our hearts to share and provide, we would have a feast that would fill and satisfy everyone. But if some withheld their offering, we would have less to go around, and some might even go without.
Right now, I have a specific need—those who can help me refuse. The refusal to help me with the resources they have to help me keeps me stuck in a pain cycle. And it’s not just my need either. I see this every day in some way.
People are suffering right now from a lack when we live in a land of abundance.
Where are love and compassion for others? When did we stop caring about others and their well-being?
In the last few weeks, I’ve dealt with an emotional and frustrating situation with no one to help me resolve it, and it has truly opened my eyes. I never want to be the kind of person who turns away from those struggling when I have the ability to help. To me, that is the very definition of responsibility. When we have the ability to help someone else, that is how we should respond.
While I can’t change anyone else, I can use the gifts God gave me for good. I can look every day for someone to help. I can pay attention to my heart’s nudges and respond accordingly. I can treat others the way I want to be treated.
I know the heartache of being rejected and turned away. It breaks my heart to see others suffering and be unable to help them. I hope and pray that no one ever suffers or cries out to the Lord because I had the ability to help them but refused.
I believe God sees our intentions. He knows why we do things and why we don’t.
Nothing is too hard for my Lord. So, I believe He will make a way for me. In my heartache, as tears raced down my face, God gave me two scriptures to comfort me.
Romans 8:28 KJV
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Jeremiah 32:27 KJV
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
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