Taking Jesus' example from Luke 13:34..
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing."
Jesus has always loved Jerusalem, the Holy City where Jesus was borned.
How can we be like Jesus and fully engage in our city?
#1, see that God has a purpose for me
God have a purpose for each person in each person's generation, for the sake of identification. Young people often fail to identify with the Builders' generation (before 1945), neither can one generation identify BEST with a different generation.. and each one of us can best influence others that is within our own generation.
Ephesians 2:10 - For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
John the Baptist was known as the voice in the wilderness. Likewise, we must be the voice in our generation too.
#2, see the city as the people
Jesus did not see the crowd but always the individual. Jesus also saw the people with compassion.
Mark 6:34 - When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.
People need the Lord, He is the open door. It was approximated that there are only 9.1% Christians in Malaysia. Despite how much we may fear or dislike crowds, we must overcome it & learn to love people for God's sake. Identify needs around us. Often times it is easier to identify people who have the same cars as us, etc. but it is always hard to identify with needs. Learn to see crowds as individuals and have compassion on them.
#3, see God given opportunities to act
Every time a need touches your heart, it is God's opportunity for us to put our faith into action.
God instructed us to "Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity" - Colossians 4:5. We should not ignore needs. Instead, respond to them using it as opportunities to touch lives.
From BBC news,
A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners are volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station.
The Skilled Veterans Corps, as they call themselves, is made up of retired engineers and other professionals, all over the age of 60.
They say they should be facing the dangers of radiation, not the young.
Volunteering to take the place of younger workers at the power station is not brave, Mr Yamada says, but logical.
“I am 72 and on average I probably have 13 to 15 years left to live,” he says.
“Even if I were exposed to radiation, cancer could take 20 or 30 years or longer to develop. Therefore us older ones have less chance of getting cancer.”
The elderly in Japan is taking this brave & sacrificial step for their future generation, their city & their nation. We should be doing the same for God, whom we have tasted that He is good. Share your testimony and your story. Spread the love of Christ to the broken-hearted, bring the hope in God to the hopeless and share the peace of God to the restless.. Let's be the light in this dark world.
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