Monday, October 1, 2007
A Heart For The Poor

Recently, God just showed me quite a few things about the poor. More importantly, God was asking me what was my heart like for the poor. Was it one that is full of compassion or was it one that makes me shun away from them. I know for myself that I have a heart for the poor,

I was just heading back home in my aunt's car from Funan IT mall. By the way, I have many aunts so the aunt that I'm referring to might not be the same aunt that I mentioned in my posts. Anyways, when we passing by upper serangoon road, there was this old man who was standing at the roadside. His appearance was quite shaggy, he wore tattered clothes and he was holding a garbage bag.

As cars passed by, he tried to signal them to stop as if he wanted a ride or something from them. When my aunt passed by, he repeatedly wave for us to stop but we just moved on. At that point of time, something just struck my heart and the next moment I was just tearing. I was thinking of the life of this man, if nobody helps this man, he is surely going to die.

While i was on my way back, I just kept thinking what I could do for him at that moment. I had thoughts of giving him all the money that I had with me at that moment so that he could make do it for the moment but God just started to speak to me. The money wasn't the main thing that mattered at that moment, it was the heart's condition that mattered. What was my heart for the poor? Was it just to give them the money and just walk off thinking that we have truly help them?

I was reminded of two songs in my heart and I just started worshipping the Lord in my heart. The first song was 'Here I am to worship'
-I remembered the lyrics in verse 2 where it says ' humbly you came to the earth you created, all for love's sake became poor'. Indeed, humbly He came for us. He left the circle of comfort He had in heaven for us. He became poor because He loves us so much. I was reminded again of how then shall I live this life of mine.
The second song was 'Saviour King'
-This song is a very powerful song with powerful lyrics and in one of the verses it says ' And now the poor, stand and confess that my portion is Him and I'm more than blessed'. The poor may seem poor with our physical eyes, but if their portion was in the Lord God Almighty, our spiritual eyes would be opened to see that indeed they are rich in the Lord.

So God reminded me of how then shall I live. My response to Him would be that I will always the poor in my daily prayer, those that I have come across as well as those that I have not. Pray about what then? That they may know the Lord and that their portion is Him, that truly they will be more than bless in the Lord. Through doing deeds like donating or giving them money or doing acts of service, God truly reminds us what is our heart for the poor.

Ask yourself today, 'what is my heart for the poor?'

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