Mark 14:7
"For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish you may do them good; but Me you do not have always."
It could potentially be very disheartening to live in constant awareness of the needs around us. Even Jesus acknowledged that during His short ministry on earth. Being need-driven was never the intention. But even that was a choice presented to us: choose what is important to you.
Shoutout: If all things are possible, can I pray and by faith claim onto a potential future that has yet to come to pass- one that is free of every pain and sorrow (isn't that a glimpse of heaven)?
Wilberforce ever said, "now that you've seen, you can no longer say that you do not know." Yet, that only reveals one aspect of humanity- Compassion overflows. On the other extreme of the spectrum, there is always this group of humans who never really cared. "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, and there won't be evil." Ostriches might have done well embracing that, but humans have had no semblance to the big bird.
Point being it could not be more wrong to say that I can continue to live life as it is because the handicapped uncle at so-and-so train station would not affect my life. Denying compassion takes out the humanistic aspect of being a human. I begin to wonder then how much of that human-ness remains.
We can't do all of the things, but we can't choose to not do anything. Making disciples of all nations could be a noble goal, but hey let's do it one at a time?
Doing all things, really? Skeptical as it is, doing nothing is absolutely wrong!
