Do not make it your aim to do everything “right” or even “righteously". Purpose instead to manifest the Lord's mercy and compassion to those around you. The Lord asks you to be identified with His interests in other people not in order that you may do for them, but so that you may be for Him.
Compassion does not always carry a mandate to perform some action in the physical realm. You have shielded your heart from compassion for those around you because you know that you have no surplus of time or strength for a physical sacrifice of work. You have forgotten the power of prayer. There are very few true intercessors, because intercession is a labor of the heart. There is always time to pray, and the Holy Spirit supplies the strength.
Scripture: "For I desire mercy, not sacrifice and acknowledgement of God rather than burnt offerings" (Hosea 6:6).
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