BBD 04.06.17 Heartless (New)

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Since June 8^th 1998, this
is the 1779^th

Burning Bush Devotional

06 April 2017

Heartless

They refuse
to understand, break their promises, are HEARTLESS, and have no mercy. – Romans
1:31 NLT.

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal,
despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having
a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
– 2 Timothy 3:1-5 NKJV.

It happened
in Kuwait City, an Ethiopian maid was
hanging by one finger outside of a seventh-floor apartment and she was
screaming “Hold
on to me! Hold on to me!” The woman’s employer, instead of trying to
help began filming the screaming woman until the woman fell. The falling woman
fell onto an awning helping her to survive, but she did break an arm. This
incident was reported as an attempted suicide.

In Kuwait,
there are some 600,000 foreign workers which is about one for every Kuwaiti
family. Foreign workers sign away rights when entering the country and they are
treated poorly working long hours, often with poor living conditions and little
food. Many of the foreign workers try to escape, but it is hard to do. Although
the Ethiopian maid’s fall was not an attempted suicide, many foreign workers do
attempt suicide to escape from the harsh conditions.

There
has been at least one report of an employer pushing their maid out of a third
story window after the maid had attempted to escape. It was reported as an
attempted suicide. As poor as the working conditions are for some in Kuwait
for foreign workers, conditions are worse in other nearby countries. (Standard
Digital 04.02.17; Yahoo 04.05.17; and many other news venues)

Hard to believe that
people can be so heartless treating people worse than they would treat a pet or
even some would treat a slave. It is a travesty, it sickening, it is awful, it
is HEARTLESS! This lack of caring, lack of compassion, lack of mercy, lack of
forgiveness points to there being a heart problem. Jesus says in Matthew 12:35, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an
evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.” There is much evil being brought out of the hearts of
the employers of foreign workers in Kuwait. You could say that they have evil
hearts.

It breaks my heart, and I am sure it breaks your heart to
hear about how horrible some people are being treated. As the apostle Paul
indicates this is one of the conditions that will be present during the “last days.” During the last days “perilous times will come.” However, are these times we live in now any more perilous than
during World War II when millions of people were killed? Or, is this time more
perilous than during many other perilous time periods that have been recorded
in history?

Let us pray for the heartless to have their
hearts changed, and that they will turn to God before it is everlastingly too
late. Let us pray for those who are being treated so poorly that they many have
some relief, and that our God will protect and encourage them. Let us pray for
our own hearts that we might not be heartless, and that we will have
compassion, mercy, and extend forgiveness. Let our hearts love, as did God have
love for us. “But God demonstrates His own love toward
us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).”

Copyright © 2017. Ed Wrather. The
Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June 8, 1998
the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed Wrather
began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those first
devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to prison
facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than
14,000 subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
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Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brad, Damon D.
& wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Lexi McCalip, Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
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You can help support this
ministry by using this link: www.paypal.me/EdWrather

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opportunities to distribute devotional booklets directed primarily toward those
with addictions.

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Since June 8^th 1998, this
is the 1779^th

Burning Bush Devotional

06 April 2017

Heartless

They refuse
to understand, break their promises, are HEARTLESS, and have no mercy. – Romans
1:31 NLT.

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal,
despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having
a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
– 2 Timothy 3:1-5 NKJV.

It happened
in Kuwait City, an Ethiopian maid was
hanging by one finger outside of a seventh-floor apartment and she was
screaming “Hold
on to me! Hold on to me!” The woman’s employer, instead of trying to
help began filming the screaming woman until the woman fell. The falling woman
fell onto an awning helping her to survive, but she did break an arm. This
incident was reported as an attempted suicide.

In Kuwait,
there are some 600,000 foreign workers which is about one for every Kuwaiti
family. Foreign workers sign away rights when entering the country and they are
treated poorly working long hours, often with poor living conditions and little
food. Many of the foreign workers try to escape, but it is hard to do. Although
the Ethiopian maid’s fall was not an attempted suicide, many foreign workers do
attempt suicide to escape from the harsh conditions.

There
has been at least one report of an employer pushing their maid out of a third
story window after the maid had attempted to escape. It was reported as an
attempted suicide. As poor as the working conditions are for some in Kuwait
for foreign workers, conditions are worse in other nearby countries. (Standard
Digital 04.02.17; Yahoo 04.05.17; and many other news venues)

Hard to believe that
people can be so heartless treating people worse than they would treat a pet or
even some would treat a slave. It is a travesty, it sickening, it is awful, it
is HEARTLESS! This lack of caring, lack of compassion, lack of mercy, lack of
forgiveness points to there being a heart problem. Jesus says in Matthew 12:35, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an
evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.” There is much evil being brought out of the hearts of
the employers of foreign workers in Kuwait. You could say that they have evil
hearts.

It breaks my heart, and I am sure it breaks your heart to
hear about how horrible some people are being treated. As the apostle Paul
indicates this is one of the conditions that will be present during the “last days.” During the last days “perilous times will come.” However, are these times we live in now any more perilous than
during World War II when millions of people were killed? Or, is this time more
perilous than during many other perilous time periods that have been recorded
in history?

Let us pray for the heartless to have their
hearts changed, and that they will turn to God before it is everlastingly too
late. Let us pray for those who are being treated so poorly that they many have
some relief, and that our God will protect and encourage them. Let us pray for
our own hearts that we might not be heartless, and that we will have
compassion, mercy, and extend forgiveness. Let our hearts love, as did God have
love for us. “But God demonstrates His own love toward
us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).”

Copyright © 2017. Ed Wrather. The
Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June 8, 1998
the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed Wrather
began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those first
devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to prison
facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than
14,000 subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brad, Damon D.
& wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Lexi McCalip, Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: http://www.paypal.me/EdWrather

There are
opportunities to distribute devotional booklets directed primarily toward those
with addictions.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

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