You say you are like Jesus, but are you?

When you walk or drive down the street, do you see someone in need, and are blessed to be able to help them, but you just pass them by, and you just don't?  If it were you, how would you feel if you were hungry, thirsty, or in need, if everyone just kept passing you by? 

God loves a cheerful giver, it is written.  Do you know that every time you pass up a chance to give you miss the joy that you feel when you have helped someone, not to boast or be proud, but that really good feeling deep in your heart?  Jesus fed a multitude, will you feed just one?

Let me share a story with you from the bible: 

Matthew 25:31-40

King James Version (KJV)

31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Acts 20:35

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’

"There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land." Deuteronomy 15:11

Who cares about the poor? God, for one. And he's pretty serious about it.

The passage from Deuteronomy is just one of many bold declarations of God's concern for the poor found throughout both the Old and New Testaments. And when God is that serious about something, then those of us who claim to follow him need to take it pretty seriously too. So, for Christians, helping the poor isn't optional, it's who we are.

"If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?" 1 John 3:17

Christians are confronted with people in absolute poverty, helpless people on the edge of life and death. And charity is the obvious response, the proper response. To withhold charity from a person in desperate need is not pleasing to God, and it is in no way being like Jesus.  Do not give just to give, do not give for show, do not give if your heart is not truly in it, give when you have the love like Jesus, because it makes you happy to give, because it  is the will of God. If you are a true Christian, this should and will  come easily. 

Outreach John 3:16 is holding and Outreach to help the homeless and the needy on December 21 2013.  Are you going to have that heart that is needed to help?  Let the love in you lead you to be a help to just one person this Winter of a blanket, gloves and hats, information on the website below.  Thanks in Advance! 

http://argreene.wix.com/outreachhopejohn316