Hebrews 13 : 5

Hebrews 13:5 NKJV

Let  your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Theme - contentment

That's cool He will never leave us. I love and hate that society is that exact opposite of how God works. When you don't meet the needs for a job,  well you don't get it. When you don't have the nice car, the cool clothes, or the cool house, well your simple not important. GOD though thinks of you as a lost soul in the dark that just needs to be shown the light. He thinks of you as important as everyone else, not better and not worse. In the bible it refers to us as sheep and Jesus as our Shepard, it says something like, that he will leave the entire herd of sheep to go find the one that is lost and bring it home and heal it back to health. We all have been that lost sheep at least once in our life. God doesn't care about what we have or what we look like, but the only thing he cares about is what our heart looks like and how we act. So if God doesn't care about what we have or what we look like, we shouldn't care about what others have or what they look like. Just love them and show compassion because everyone is lost at least one time of their life.

Also I see this as such an encouragement, He will never leave you or forsake you. That just sounds so beautifu, I feel like it is something we all know, but easily forget. We act as if we never heard this verse, we do whatever we want whenever we want. And like what pastor Don said in class, "We would make sure everything is clean in all aspects of your life if Billy Graham was coming over, and put out books that he would approve of." But we don't do this when Christ is always there watching us and living within us. We act as if we don't care what the King of kings and Lord of lords thinks about how we live. But we care about a name, that God used greatly and used to bring a lot of people to Him. What about the God that made Billy Graham, He knew how to work with Billy Graham, God knew everything about him. Yet we care if Billy Graham sees that we are a mess, but we couldn't care what God sees.

Application - showing love and compassion to someone that is lost.