I found this prayer in my devotional this morning and I felt like it really touched my heart and I wanted to share it with everyone.
Break my cold, hard, self-centered heart, O God, and replace it with a heart that beats as one with Yours. Don't let me be content to be a tourist in this world, just passing through, seeking only to maximize my pleasure and minimize my discomfort. Rather, allow me to be attentive to what You see, aware of the suffering of those You came to save.
Put within me a heart that is tender and responsive to the needs of Your world, a heart that will never again look at the hungry and the homeless, the sick and the dying, and conclude that they are someone else's problem. Give me a heart that will never allow me to consider how little I can get by with but only how much more I can do.
And then, Father, with my eyes fixed upon Jesus and the sure and certain hope of heaven before me, give me a willingness to stop and get my hands dirty in being about Your business helping those in need around me. Amen.
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