Break My Heart for What Breaks Yours

"Do not allow complicated scenarios create apathy."

There's something about big problems that cause us to turn apathetic.  We walk right past the man laying on the road, bruised and beaten, and say that 'someone else will come along', 'we don't know him so he's not our concern', 'his problems are greater than anything we can do', or even walk past and talk about him to our friends and family.  This is what Jesus talks about in the parable of the 'Good Samaritan' in Luke 10.

Why do we pass responsibility on to others when God calls us to give a hand to those who are in need?  I am guilty of this just as much as anyone else.  My heart is to take the steps I can right now.  To provide for those who have nothing and love those who know no love.  I do not want to be like the Levite who knew the system and assumed it would eventually take care of the man laying there and I do not want to be like the priest who did not want to be seen as unclean.  But I do long to be as the Samaritan, who was willing to risk who he is to save a man's life who he probably hated.
I long for my heart to be broken so deeply by the heart of the Father that I do not hesitate to take care of the pain I see in those around me or to stand for the injustice taking the lives of those around the world.

With the Helper moving inside of us, no problem, issue, or solution is too large for us to take on.  And no action is too small.  If we are focused on Christ and who He is, then we are going to see justice like we've never seen it before.  The dent humanity can make is absolutely nothing on the massacre Christ's blood brings to the injustice of the world.

The basic idea of this post was presented by Jim Ehrman in our class, the Forum.