What Would You Have Me Do?

 “But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.”

Matthew 9:36

 

 

 

What moves you?

What’s stirs you to act?

A headline?

An act of injustice?

A rousing political speech?

Here is a challenge for you.

Find out what moved Jesus in the Gospels.

When you find them, ask Him to make those the passion of your heart.

He is the same yesterday, today and forever so those things that moved Him when He walked on the earth still move His heart today.

We sing a chorus that includes these words:

“…break my heart with what breaks yours…”

Those are dangerous words to sing unless we really mean it.

A heart that is moved, a person that is challenged enough to actually get up out of the easy chairs of life are the ones that can truly make a difference in the world.

Are you moved by those things that move God?

If I am honest, I have to say that I am not always moved in the same way.

My flesh wants to stay comfortable.

Yours does too.

But, compassion, mercy, justice, love – these are the things that ought to move us

from ease to action.

Led by the Holy Spirit to action we are moved from useless to useful.

So stop a moment and take stock.

Ask “What moves me?” and then let the answer bring you into a conversation with the Lord.

“What would you have me do?”