COMPASSIONATE CONNECTION

COMPASSIONATE CONNECTION

When you deal with thousands of needy people it is very easy to begin seeing them as numbers and then the needs move to problems and then to hassles. The enemy of compassion is routine. When your purpose for doing fades, you rapidly become weary in well doing. Humans actually have no capacity for compassion, only the counterfeit, which is sympathy.

Sympathy is limited to giving out of one's abundance. If it really doesn't cause a hardship sympathy will be extended. Sympathy sympathizes with those in need, compassion identifies with them. With Compassion you, feel their pain, and must do, with sympathy you, see their pain, and would like to do. When you have sympathy, you can go home and forget about the pain you witnessed, until you see it the next time. When you have compassion you take their pain with you, and it causes you to do everything possible to find relief for them. Because of heaven's compassion, I needed to grow up "like a tender plant, and like a root out of dry ground; ( no silver spoon) I had no form or comeliness royal, kingly pomp, so everybody would look at Me, and no beauty that you would should desire Me. I was really a little homely. [3] I was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces I was actually despised, and no one appreciated My worth or have any esteem for Me." Isaiah 53:2-3 (AMP)

When you were first saved you had such compassion you were willing to sell everything, and go anywhere to reach the lost. Remember how you were going to win the whole world to Me, but then something bad happened, you were snared into the worst possible place. ... A place where some of you "are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!" Revelation 3:15 (AMP) because you were snared into RELIGION and were taught the counterfeit of compassion, sympathy. You were told, to "face reality" "I understand the American way and would never ask you to give up the American dream". They cautioned, "you can help others but don't go overboard! You need to save for your retirement"! "Save for a rainy day"! They said, "Who's going to take care of you, when you get old? After all you got to think of yourself." "Don't loose your life, save it!"

Those of you that were snared, I wish you were a plain unchurched sinner again, back then you didn't rationalize everything. Back then you knew you were lost and it was easy for Me to deal with you. But now you don't know you are backslidden and every time I try to talk to you, you look at your neighbor and say, "He's talking to you". Sympathy makes you complacent because you exchanged compassion for a system of works. Doing more good and showing more sympathy, to justify your hard heart and lack of relationship with Me. You can even go as far surrendering your body to be burned or in order to glory, but still not compassionate love (My love ), only sympathy." 1 Corinthians 13:3 (AMP)

If you are one that has been snared, each time I bring conviction to correct you, you run to show sympathy somewhere, in order to feel good again and dismiss the pain of conviction. If ten people volunteer to help feed the needy, two will have My compassion, eight will have human sympathy. Eight will keep looking at their watches, two will even forget to eat. Eight will dismiss themselves when time dictates, two will need to be told to go home. Two will ask if they can come back, eight will have to be asked to come back. Eight will say, "I think I've done enough", two will say, "I don't feel as if I have done anything"!

The needy will always run to the compassionate and bypass the sympathetic, because of the compassionate connection. One has to, the other wants to. Sympathy is based in the soul, and is turned on and off as easy as a faucet, but compassion has it's foundation in the spirit, and can never be turned off. Now let Me show you a mystery, without Me being in control, your soul man will do good out of guilt and everything you do will have the words "I Got to" preceding it. However when I control your life and you are abiding in Me and My word in you, all your good will be done out of love and the words "I want to" will precede them.

Now here is a word to the wise leader; sympathetic people can be helpers, but only put the compassionate in charge! Compassionate people, are the first to arrive and last to leave. First to volunteer and quick to defend the weak. Compassionate people, clean up, turn the lights out, and lock the door. Compassionate people keep things in order, are accountable and they are transparent. Compassionate people have My heart and your back. When the chips are down compassionate people never fail because When the chips are down compassionate people never fail because "love never fails, never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end." 1 Corinthians 13:8 (AMP) When you find them treasure them as your best friend, because they are Mine.

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Jim Hammerle

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