Friday, December 23, 2011

Jesus Needs Help!


Are you willing to help? Are you generous enough to give everything to Jesus? Are you ready to share your blessings to Him this time? Are you serious prioritizing Jesus and give Him all the help He needs right now? Are you already prepared and decided what gift to give Him on His birthday?

I am quite sure that many of us have already bought our gifts for our family, friends, and godchildren. It is indeed a very benevolent gesture of thinking and preparing something special for the people dear to us. Jesus is truly happy for all our acts of generosity and thoughtfulness because we never fail to remember Jesus’s birthday through others.

This time JESUS NEEDS HELP!

More than the gifts we usually give during His birthday Jesus is appealing to us to extend our help to our suffering brothers and sisters in Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, and other affected areas in Mindanao due to the great havoc brought about by typhoon Sendong. All of us may have read, heard, watched, or witnessed the very depressing situation of our fellow Filipinos who are right now suffering from great hunger, thirst, obnoxious smell, missing family members, lost of properties, and death of a loved one. What have we done so far?

Every time I watch the news on television, I can’t help but feel very sad and at the same time guilty because much as I would want to help I am not doing anything at all. More than pity and prayers which anyone of us can do, they need all the help they can get from us. As Jesus said, “Whatever you do to the least of your brethren, you do it unto me.” Jesus needs help this time. He is begging us to share our blessings to our suffering and dying brothers and sisters in Mindanao. Jesus never fails to help us and He never gets tired of listening and granting our prayers every time we asked help from Him. This time Jesus needs our help.

It is never too late to send all the support that we can give and be an instrument of hope, love, and compassion to those who need it. I believe that Jesus never expects anything from us on His birthday but if we really love Him more than anything else, let us help Jesus now through our suffering and dying sisters and brothers in Mindanao.

Jesus needs help! Do you care enough to help Him?

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