The morning everyone and welcome back to the Messy Masterpiece Podcast with Chad and

Tori. Happy Friday. Happy Friday. Happy Friday y'all. Welcome back. You ready to jump into today's

devotional? Yes let's do it you guys. Today we're reading out of Luke 10 verse 34 and the devotional

is titled Carrying for Others. It says, going over to him the Samaritan soothed his wounds with

olive oil and wine and bandaged them. Then he put the man on his own donkey and took him to an

inn where he took care of him. The love letter from God says, beloved child, I love it when you

reach out to those in need. Many people in your life have needs and I do not expect you to meet

all of them, but there will be special people that I have assigned for you to serve. Although

at times you may feel it is a burden to take care of those who can't take care of themselves,

the blessing I will give you for your sacrifice will be much more than you could ever give

yourself. When you reach out to someone in need, you become an extension of my loving kindness

and a reflection of my love. Love your heavenly Father. The reflection says, a person in need

may appear to be a burden to us, but may actually be someone God will use to change our

perspective on what really matters in this life. Just as Jesus saved us, he gives us the wonderful

honor and opportunity to save others who need to be rescued. Even the Son of God said,

he did not come to be served, but to serve others. The treasure of truth says, if we are not meeting

needs, our lives become meaningless. Yeah, that's so good. I tend to correlate the word love with

sacrifice or service, because I like to read it is in the Son of Man came to serve and to not be

served. The Son of Man came to love and to not be loved. I love how hand in hand like sacrifice

or service are with love, because you've heard me probably share this analogy before. If someone

has a newborn baby and you ask them, do they love the baby, they're like, yeah, my heart grew

when I had the baby. But what can the baby do for you? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

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