'The Ministry of Sympathy
The Ministry of Sympathy
"Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble." 1 Peter 3:8
No ministry in this world is more beautiful or more helpful, than that of those who have become familiar with life's hard paths, and have learned life's secrets in the s chool of experience — and then go about inspiring, strengthening, and guiding younger souls who follow them.
Nothing in Christ is more precious than this knowledge of life's ways, gained by His own actual experience in walking this earth.
He has not forgotten what life was like back then. He remembers how He felt when He was hungry, or weary, or in struggle with the tempter, or forsaken by His friends.
And it is because He went through all these experiences, that now in Heaven, He can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities and can give us sympathy, help, and guidance.
"For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are — yet was without sin." Hebrews 4:15
"Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." 1 Thessalonians 5:11