Intently listening to the words of a troubled person can be the most loving thing that you can do. You are allowing the person to her his or her woes off of his or her chest. The person feels better for talking about the problem but he or she also knows that someone else cares enough to listen. To have the temporary ears and caring spirit of someone else is more valuable to troubled people than jewels.
Just think how many professional people are monetarily compensated for listening to others, psychologists, psychiatrists, pastors, counselors, teachers and doctors. If it is so beneficial to pay someone to listen to your problems, then you must realize that when you, as My child, also listen to someone you are performing a valuable ministry.
The caution for you is not to take their problems home with you, not to fret about them. You know how to pray about them and turn them over to Me.
Teach the people who tell you their woes how to also turn their problems over to Me. However, it is still beneficial to allow them to borrow your ears and your caring spirit in order for them to vent or blow off the steam that might push them over into doing something foolish, either strike back at the person who is causing their problems or do something more extreme, like injure themselves or others.
I don the same thing for you. I listen to your problems. Your prayers are actually your telling Me your woes, your problems and your cares, then leaving them with Me, trusting Me to work My solutions. So when you listen to the cares of others you are fulfilling the ministry of love by helping the person lighten his or her load just by being an understanding ear. It's a form of emotional relief for the troubled person.
It fulfills the request that you bear one another's burdens and thus fulfill the ministry of Jesus.
Love, God
Galatians 6:2; Psalm 5:3; Psalm 17:1; Psalm 30:10; Luke 17:3-4; Luke 22:32; I Corinthians 13;4-7.
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