Focus on the LighthouseSample

So when you are afflicted or someone you love is afflicted and needs compassionate fellowship, it is vital to remind yourself of these promises even if the one you are helping through their affliction cannot find the lighthouse that is Jesus in the middle of their storm. Sometimes you have to let the lighthouse work through you, and the result of an infinite and almighty lighthouse working through your finite and ever-weakening flesh can exhaust you.

It’s funny how the saying “an empty cup cannot fill another” sounds like it would be straight from Proverbs, because it’s not. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that, but it is still an accurate proverb and if the author had a little more time, I don’t doubt that he would’ve jotted that down. The cycle of expending compassion from a deteriorating, limited vessel, includes the process of refilling your ability to do it again.

It’s like charging your phone; it won’t work if it doesn’t have some alone time in the corner to recharge, or at the very least it’ll take longer for it to recharge if you’re using it while it’s charging. Only in this case, you have to refill your cup of compassion (aka your heart) from the Source of Living Water; your Infinite Supplier of compassion.

Today we’ll look at John 4:7-14. The woman at the well.