Are You Helpful or Heartless Toward Others?

Mea e 'ai e tatau ma le aso
“It is Christ  who also makes intercession for us  the Spirit  makes intercession for the saints ” (Romans 8:34, 27).

Do we need any more arguments than these to become intercessors—that Christ “always lives to make intercession” (Hebrews 7:25), and that the Holy Spirit “makes intercession for the saints”?
Are we living in such a relationship with others that we do the work of intercession as a result of being the children of God who are taught by His Spirit?

We should take a good look at our current circumstances.  Do crises which affect us or others in our home, business, country, or elsewhere, seem to be crushing in on you?
Are we being pushed out of the presence of God and left with no time for worship?
If so, we must put a stop to these distractions and get into such a relationship with God, that our relationship with others is maintained through out the work of intercession, where God works His miracles.

Beware of getting ahead of God by your very desire to do His will.  We sometimes run so far ahead of Him, becoming too burdened with people and problems that we forget to worship God, and we fail to intercede on His behalf.

If a burden and its pressures come upon us while we are not in an attitude, or frame of mind of worship, it will only produce a hardness toward God and despair in our own souls.
God continually introduces us to people in whom we have no interest, and unless we are worshiping God, the natural tendency is to be heartless toward them.

We give them a quick verse of Scripture, like jabbing them with a spear, or leave them with a hurried, uncaring word of counsel before we go on with our busy life.

A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.  Are our lives in such improper place that we forget how to participate in the intercession of our Lord and Saviour?  Are you helpful or heartless towards others?  What would Jesus do?

Ia manuia,

failauga p. anoa'i