WHO WILL LISTEN?

It can be quite frustrating when all you need is to be able to talk to somebody and there is no one to listen. You know, you can have a lot of people around you yet no one is listening. Their response could throw you further into the pit of frustration and anger, especially if you are the sympathetic type who always gives a word of encouragement when needed but in your time of need you find that you are screaming down a tunnel and there is no one there to respond or help, so your cry for help then echoes back to yourself.

The human race can be quite selfish in many aspects, as people know how to use others to meet their own needs but when it comes to giving other people the help that they themselves received in their own hour of need, it becomes a burden for them to sacrifice for just one moment. Such is life, but we must continue to encourage ourselves and keep going, as I have come to the conclusion that even those very close to you can deny you at any time and you cannot fully rely on the arm of flesh, as it always fails at the most needed hour.

Why, oh why is the human race like this? Why are we so selfish that we cannot sacrifice? Why do we forget so easily where we are coming from?

When we are in Canaan, the land full of milk and honey, why do we so easily and speedily forget our Egypt, the land of slavery where we came from when we needed help so badly someone came and bailed us out!

Be determined to continue and not allow the selfishness of the human race to harden you, as the only person who will get hurt is you.

Why am I publishing this today? Because someone right now is crying out for help and there is no one to listen.

I soon realised that the art of listening is a truly a gift. Some may genuinely be willing to listen but have no time, others listen only when it benefits them. It is only a minority that sacrifice and listen regardless of whatever you have to say. Just being there for someone does not cost money, neither will it cost you your life, it is only a matter of sacrifice.

I say a big THANK YOU to the minority who are always there and willing to sacrifice. God bless you.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Think, one day you may need someone to listen and there may be no one there, just as surely as you were not there for that voice crying out for help today. What you sow is what you will reap.

WORD OF WISDOM

He who answers before listening— that is his folly and his shame. (Proverbs 18:13)