Luke 19:41-42
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
The International Red Cross was born out of what Jean Henri Dunant saw in the battlefield. In 1859 he travelled to Italy to meet Napoleon III concerning a business deal. The French Army was in the field of Italy. When Dunant reached Solferino, he saw forty thousand solders dead or wounded on the field. Without any organized effort to care for the injured, several people died. It was the experience of Dunant that made him abandon his business endeavor and pursued the establishment of Red Cross as well as the codification of the Geneva Conventions to give enough protection to combatants and wounded.
Jesus Christ wept when he saw the city. There was compassion on His heart for the people in the city who had rejected and ignored His message of salvation. He is a God who cares too much and love too great. We should be like Him. We should be moved with compassion with what we see. Lamentations clearly says that what we see affects our hearts.
Dunant did what he could. We should also do what we can do. It is not enough for us to continue sighing on what we had not done. We must work on doing something great for the achievement of the Gospel. It is not a time to waste. It is a time to work and be part of the movement of people doing something for the ministry of the Lord.
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