Oil for Wounds

Life can ravage people, and it usually does on some level at some time to all of us. God’s people are to become the heart, hands, and feet of Heaven, moving in toward those who lay by the wayside in their wounding. People expect the Christians to help. More importantly, so does the Father. In a famous parable from Jesus, we are confronted with the possibility of our religious coldness keeping us from the compassionate pouring out of oil in the wounds of those who have been mugged by life. We must make our minds up ahead of time that the oil we have been given is not just for our own anointing, but for the health and wholeness of the fallen ones.