A 110-year-old Israeli Bedouin shepherd was admitted to a Beersheba hospital while experiencing a heart attack. In spite of his age, doctors worked hard to save him. The man was thought to be the oldest heart patient ever to be treated successfully with anticlotting drugs. A hospital spokesperson reported that the Bedouin returned to his tent in the Negev Desert to tend his goats.
The care given to this 110-year-old man faintly echoes the way Jesus responded to those people we consider beyond help. His ability and willingness to go beyond social barriers to help lepers and social outcasts went far beyond the normal expectations of what a good person would do.
Even in the agony of His own suffering, Jesus reached out to a dying man everyone else regarded as beyond help. The man was a criminal, condemned to die, and only hours from entering a lost eternity. In that moment, Jesus responded to the man’s cry for help and said, “Today you will be with Me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43).
Do you know someone who seems beyond help today? or perhap so weak, so hopeless?
I pray that God's loving kindness has strengthen your faith the way it has strengthen mine today.Love, Just.
3 comments:
amen! Justina, way to go.....
I'm encouraged to read your QT.
yes, we must always remind each other not to give up and not to be discourage and not afraid to get rejection to reach out to the lost.
today I've asked my aunt to come for married workshop. In the past,I've invited many many times, but she rejected me and I gave up.
But today I try again . God will faithful and I believe I can bring at least 2 couples to married workshop!!
Amen!
LUv,
veron
Yes, this is so encouraging. God is so loving,isn't it? Thanks sis!
Love,
sk
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