Seeing the unseen, hearing the unheard, bleeding compassion for the hurting and the lost and the forsaken…The homeless are treated as invisible, a nuisance, disregarded because of their circumstance. Can we not look into their eyes and see ourselves, one mistake, one unfortunate happening away from the same plight? We should and we must. Jesus said, “If you are generous with the hungry and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out, your lives will begin to glow in the darkness, your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight.” Is 58:10 MSG.

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One person at a time, we can invest our lives in helping the hurting and the downtrodden for the glory of God. Ending all suffering is not our goal because God’s Word says that it has been unleashed on the world by the Fall of man to sin. He has promised that He will end the suffering at the appointed time, In the meantime, loving one another and lifting those who are down are achievable and God-honoring…Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

 

This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.”