Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We are rounding out with day three

of our The Struggle is real devotional. How to walk with someone who is hurting in the Bible app.

There's a link to that in the description of the podcast if you guys want to follow along with

us and as always I'm going to read the scripture and towards going to pick up with the divo.

Let's do it. The scripture is John chapter 11 verse 35 and it says this

then Jesus wept. The devotional is titled empathy over sympathy. The shortest verse in the

Bible is John 11 35 Jesus wept. This particular verse is found in the middle of the story of Lazarus

specifically just after his death. Despite being only two words this verse teaches us a lot

about how to walk with others when they're hurting. In that short verse Jesus teaches us how to show

empathy. Job's friends got it all wrong because what they were practicing was sympathy. To be

sympathetic towards another person is to see the situation through your own perspective. For a

life as Bill dad and shofar their perspective told them that Job was being punished for his sin.

Impathy on the other hand is putting yourself in another person's shoes. It's forcing yourself to

see the situation through their eyes. All Job needed from his wife and friends was someone to sit

with him not tell him why he was going through the hardship. He needed presence not perspective.

When Lazarus died Jesus did not try to wave off Mary and Martha's pain or tell them at least

he's in a better place or give a reason why Lazarus might have died. He saw Lazarus death through

their eyes and did not judge them or the situation. He recognized the sadness and hurt they were

feeling than grieved with them. To quote Burnay Brown, empathy is simply listening, holding space,

withholding judgment, emotionally connecting and communicating that incredibly healing

message of you're not alone. Practicing empathy won't always be comfortable because seeing things

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