Ministry is important and it has an impact on us, because it helps us to develop compassionate heart
Dear children of God, welcome to the column of our “Daily word for spiritual strength”!Our God is a living God, and He wants His children to be alive through the truth of His word and be ready for every good work.Yesterday we read the parable about the Good Samaritan, written in the Gospel of Luke. There were four types of people represented in that story: the victims, the robbers, the indifferent people and the compassionate people.As we discovered, many people become victims of human evil and wiles. Robbers use other people to achieve their own goals, and doing that through all possible means.Indifferent people are the same selfish people who continue to focus on themselves and their own needs.As we dig deeper into the parable, we see that even the priest and the Levite walked past the victim, who desperately needed their help. Perhaps, they were in a hurry up to serve God, so they had no time to help the dying man. Maybe the priest and the Levite were late and on their way to a service or a home group, worship rehearsal or even a prayer meeting, therefore, they found their business more important than saving a man of who is near death. Strange, isn’t it. I remember a story that I once read about a pastor, who decided to demonstrate this story in his church. In order to do that, one Sunday morning he dressed up like a homeless man and sat down next to the entrance of their church. Members of the congregation walked past, paying no attention to the man sitting helpless on their way. Nobody bordered to help this man out or even care enough to come near him. Do you know why? It is because all of them were in a hurry to their church service. Later, the pastor changed his clothes and began to preach his sermon. At the very beginning of his message he asked the audience if anyone of them noticed the homeless man who was sitting outside the entrance of their church. Sure enough, almost everybody did. Then the pastor revealed his secret and told them he was the one who pretended to the homeless man. Everybody was ashamed of their behaviour. The pastor taught the church an important lesson that day, and the lesson is that we serve God by serving people who are in need. Now, let’s have a close look at the fourth type of people reflected in the parable of Good Samaritan – the compassionate people.Compassionate people are those who help the people who are in need and those who are abused. They use everything they have at their disposal that God has blessed them with in order to accomplish that. This type of people understands that everything God has given to them is not for themselves only, but also for serving other people. That’s why they are generous and quick to come to the aid of injured and abused people who are in need. In the parable, the good Samaritan represents a compassionate person, who saw a man dying on the road and
