Does your heart hurt for the people that you are trying to minister too?

As the Editor of TheLife.com I see a lot of emails from people hurting and aching for the love and redemption of Jesus Christ. When I read an email from a young woman just diagnosed with HIV or a young man finding it hard to forgive himself for some past mistake my heart hurts. I literally get a pain in my heart.

God has given us all a desire to help others but sometimes the business of ministry overshadows the actual ministry. There is a line in one of my favorite songs by Kendal Payne it says “May your heart break enough that compassion enters in May your strength all be spent upon the weak.” I encourage you all don’t lose the ache in your heart, embrace it and cherish it. Let it spur you on.

The bible says in Philippians 2:1-11:

If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,but made himself nothing,taking the very nature of a servant,being made in human likeness.And being found in appearance as a man,he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross!Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,in heaven and on earth and under the earth,and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,to the glory of God the Father.