Self-Centered!

Job 30: 25

Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?

Have you ever experienced trouble, that you know other’s are going through right now?

I wonder if we’ve forgotten what it’s like, to be in a fix?

The heaviness of trouble, can wear a person down fast.

Do you know what it might have been like, to have someone else help carry that burden?

We almost never have to worry about what we’re going to eat for supper, but a poor person does.

Do we really grieve for the poor?

Having to go to a food pantry, must not be fun for the person who has to use one.

I can’t even relate, because I’ve never had to shop at one.

Maybe we wouldn’t have to beg for food to fill the shelves of our church food pantry, if we really knew what it was like to be poor.

Sometimes we hear of the trouble people have, and we’re honestly not one bit moved.

I wonder if we’re more self centered, than we thought we were…

“Abundant God, forgive us when we’re not really moved about people who have severe trouble.

Give our hearts a boost of compassion, as we consider the poor that live near us. Amen.”