Love Blues

New International Version (©1984)
When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, "This man deserves to have you do this,

This week I am dealing with the idea of obligations. It is so much easier to ingnore the world and stay in ones little hole. However the satisfacation of frienship and fellowship is not found by oneself. But the minute a person gets involved in what might appear the smallest of committment all of a sudden there is an obligation. These obligations mean there is something that needs to be done. Time to be spend on projects that may not be all that important to the worker and money to be spent in ways not desired by the giver.

Jesus shows revealed that he had the ability to heal and then swarms of people expected him to use his power to heal. I believe he willingly healed people, yet he got tired. The people seemed demanding and made it Christ's obligation to heal. Today we pray for healing. Are we the same as the people in Christ's day. I hope that we put our hope in God's will and that his will is to heal those we know and love. We shouldn't expect healing, just because we know that God can give it. We should hope that he will heal due to knowing that He loves us.

That is also why we complete our obligations. Because we care. Christ healed, because he cared. So next time you have a job to do that you don't care much about and money to spend on a cause that you didn't pick. Remember it's all done because you have a heart like Christ's...one that cares. When we struggle with the caring keep in mind that Jesus commands us to love. Loving isn't always easy and it isn't automatic. It's a choice. When we ask for help to love God provides that too.

So ask for the ability to love and I hope you'll find that all of a sudden those obligations turn into our own desires.