Man and His Compassion for Others

Let’s ask ourselves the question:  What is compassion?  It could very well be, having a desire to help others in their suffering.  Generosity and service are ways that compassion can be demonstrated.  We can be sympathetic to someone under stress.  Maybe they lost their job and we might be able to alleviate that stress by some type of assistance.  It is allowed to help others without expecting rewards.  There is always someone out there who is less fortunate. 

The Sunday school lesson this past Sunday covered compassion in our Christian life.  I read somewhere that “kindness gives birth to kindness.”  Someone else said: “Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.” 

Dalai Lama – is the spiritual leader of Tibet who continues to speak of forgiveness, justice, and living together in harmony.  Mother Teresa – worked in the slums of Calcutta, India, helping and nursing the poor and sick.  She had a great reverence for human life.  So many dedicated people in the past have given their all to help others with the same compassion we’re talking about today.  When do we begin?

What would be wrong with we as Christians, if we started today, looking for ways to help in any situation without being asked.  Send a card, make a phone call, send flowers or be brave and just visit.  God bless!

Jake Cannon

Man's Role in the Home

In the beginning, God saw fit for man not to be alone. God created woman and this is when the marriage relationship, and the beginning of a home and children. (Gen. 2:18-24)

God gave man guidelines for the spiritual family, the church. He also gave guidelines to govern conduct in the physical family. (a) Men are to study the word of God to know his role in the physical family. (b) Man is to be the "head" of his physical family, the same as Christ is the head of the church. (Eph. 1:22-23; 5:23)

When man leaves the financial support of his parents, he must accept the same role of responsibility for himself and his own household. In Acts 11:23, "Cleave" literally meant cemented, glued, adhered to. Our wife is to be the highest earthly loyalty, and we, as men are to live for her and to think of her and please her before our parents.

Leadership is needed in every family, and the husband must live up to his God-given responsibility. The wife is not a slave to her husband. Men must exercise love, humility, and consideration of his wife and her needs before himself.

When husbands fail to honor their wives, joyfully live with them and cleave to them, they endanger the most fundamental and intimate relationship God designed for mankind. (1 Pet. 3:7; Eccl. 9:9; Matt. 19:5)