Your Sympathy is Not Helping Me
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Your Sympathy is Not Helping Me
Your Sympathy is Not Helping Me There is a vast and critical difference between love and sympathy. A lot of religious organizations in an effort to show love instead rush in with sympathy and that sympathy can be quite deadly.
Sympathy: “the ability to share the feelings of another esp. in sorrow or trouble” (Webster’s Dictionary). We should feel bad for others who are suffering and going through. This is refreshing to see in the cold cruel world we’re living in.
Yet too often we see when people respond with sympathy and actually take away duty and responsibility. There are things that a person must do and be held responsible for even in the face of tragedy or negative situations.
When a person goes out and gets pregnant out of wedlock society says they have a right to negate their duty and responsibility of raising the child by getting an abortion. Yet that does not help the individual but hurt the individual. It teaches them that they do not have to face the consequences of their actions.
The word of God lets us know, “God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Galatians 6:7). In other words, whatever you do or involve yourself in there is a consequence for it whether good or bad. Yet society has tried to negate this principle in God’s word by giving people options that God never intended for them to have.
In the religious world we see so many organizations that operate on this kind of sympathy. They allow their emotions, their feelings, their perspective to cause them to make allowances that God’s word does not make.
“Oh they don’t know any better, just let them keep their girlfriend, let them keep their boyfriend.”
“They can’t help it, their dad drank.” “They can’t help it; their mother smoked a pack a day.”
Their sympathy leaves the person in sin actually preventing them from having a better life, real love, true joy, and the peace of God within.
People are suffering needlessly because of their sympathy. God can save and change lives, but sympathy keeps the individual from feeling the weight of the sin they are in. They tell them they are okay, but they are still hurting, and dying, and crying inside. Copyright 2013 CCF Writers
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Your Sympathy is Not Helping Me
Your Sympathy is Not Helping Me They give them handouts and fix them up to look real nice but they are yet bound in sin and full of wickedness within.
The problem they came with is still wrapped around their soul like a noose and all their sympathy can’t get them loose, but they continue to heap it on anyway.
Sympathy prevents them from being able to restrict or require things of people in a certain way. The people call the requirements cruel, so now there’s an exception to the rule that’s against God’s commands but surely “God understands.”
God is a god of love not sympathy. He came to set the sinner free, not smother him with sympathy. He told the blind to go wash and the lame to get up and walk. He never said just sit around feeling sorrow for yourself or I’ll cry with you and feel bad about your situation.
Jesus never told anyone, “I can’t make you any better than you are. I can’t help you out of your situation so I’ll just accept you as you are.” Yet these religious organizations say, “You can come as you are and stay as you are because we understand that you can’t do any better.”
Thank God, there is deliverance for your situation. You don’t have to continue on in sin. You can be made free from all that has you bound up. You don’t have to keep slipping up while you’re trying to do better. God doesn’t expect you to try to hide your sin or look good without while you are full of sin within. God cleans you up and makes you new so that you don’t have to do what you don’t want to do.
See through the sympathy. See what they are doing to you. They are telling you that you can’t do any better. They are telling you that you have to be subject to sin all your lifetime. They are saying you can never stop hurting yourself or hurting others around you. They are crippling you and denying you a better life. Let them know, “Enough with the sympathy, where’s the ability to get free?”
Do you want more sympathy or do you want liberty? Christ died to set you free, but all they are offering you is sympathy.
John 8:34, 36 “Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin... If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” Copyright 2013 CCF Writers
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