It’s fascinating watching the unbelievers run to their savoir, toilet paper. When they started to panic, believing they were going to be quarantined and locked in their homes, they stocked up on ramen noodles and toilet paper! My mind thought that if they truly believed that was true, they would have bought out all of the canned food in Milwaukee. Many people are frightened, not knowing what to think, do or who to follow.
The Bible compares our character and instincts to sheep. They are social animals. Sheep are followers, following their leader sheep wherever he leads them. They will become agitated, stressed if separated from their group. When feeling threatened, they flee, then use their natural herding instincts to regroup for safety. But if a sheep becomes separated from it’s flock, it becomes totally vulnerable to predators.
God views the frightened and lost with compassion, a sympathetic pity and genuine care. They are blindly following someone or thing, hoping for the best. They need to be directed to our Lord Jesus Christ as their leader. His safe place here on earth is His church, specially designed so we can group together, receive help, protection and comfort from each other. It is also a group of believers that you can return to, if you had fled away or had been lost. Seeing the unbelievers scattering, panicking and hopeless should move us to have compassion, pity, and care for them, as He does.
Matthew 9:36, “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 14:14 “And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and He healed their sick.”
Colossians 3:12, “Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering;”
Acts 20:28-29, “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which He hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.”
Hebrews 12:1, “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”
1 Corinthians 10:3, “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”
Caring, Cindy
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