Yesterday, as I stood on the balcony at church and listened to the missionary from Calcutta Mercy Ministries, my heart felt like it was going to burst out of my chest. Hot tears stained my cheeks as I watched the footage of the baby girl being fed by her nurse. The baby was born in India, abandoned by her mother, and was born with a cleft palate. According to the video, that put two strikes against her. Being born a female made that three.
This little baby's face was so deformed, she could not even suckle a bottle. The nurse had to hold her and feed her from a spoon.
Call me a bleeding heart all you want, but I have the heart that God gave me. I can't look upon a person who is hurting, who needs help, who needs food, who needs clothing, who needs love ... and not care. I am not that kind of person and I don't understand how anyone can claim they are a follower of Christ and then not care.
God gives us a new heart, a new mind, a new way of looking at things. As Christians we are called to bear good fruit. I don't think apathy qualifies. Actually, I know it doesn't.
People who can look on others' suffering and not feel something, be it pity or sorrow or a motivation to do something, scare me.
A writer by the name of Samuel Donaldson wrote the Mirror of Her Dreams series, and it in a character says, "I believe problems should be solved by those who see them."
I'm pretty sure something like that comes up in the Bible, too. ;)
I guarantee it is! :)
apathy is rotten fruit. so true! amen from me.