The Capacity to Care

I know I've written about it before, but it has been so often on my heart, and such a great source of comfort, that it is worth repeating. It is that God changes our hearts. We are not doomed or destined or bound to live in the sinful patterns we may have lived in growing up. I grew up in a sea of selfishness, with a serious lack of looking to anyone else's interests or caring at all about anyone else. God, though, has changed my heart and taken my heart of stone and given me a heart of flesh-a new heart that has the capacity to care. (Ezekiel 36:26.) In talking about this with a friend, I told her that I think I would be sad, near-suicidal even, if I had not the capacity to care for others. To me, that is life. I love God and I love others (family, friends, neighbors, Rufus the dog), and I am only able to do that because God gives me the ability. This is a source of unending comfort for me, and I hope that it will be the same for you. My desire in writing this is to comfort you with the comfort with which God's comforted me. (2 Cor.1:4.)