• Your Pain In My Heart

  Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Dec 7, 2009 (message contributor)

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  Tags:  Christian Love

  Denomination: Baptist

YOUR PAIN IN MY HEART

Until we walk where others walk, we usually don’t care much about what they are going through. This is why so many people who experience tragedy, start support groups to help others like themselves. Until we hurt we are not much help.

We are like the Queen, who, when told her people were starving, said, "Let them eat cake." We put on our cars, "I fight poverty – I work!" and never give a thought to those who need transportation to get to work. Sympathy leads to action, the positive love of the "Good Samaritan" (Luke 14). Sympathy has been defined as "your pain in my heart."