Apathy. Who cares, anyway?
Apathy is the cruelest of emotions.
Apathy is the cruelest of emotions. There is no pain so brutal as to cease from caring.
Those ruthless sisters, Indifference and Neglect, deceive us to believe that they are the steel against sentiment and insulation from pain. But in truth, they stir within us a cesspool of darkness—a well of numbing poison from which we alone must drink.
Apathy feels good at first. It numbs the soul to discomfort and fear, yet left unaddressed, apathy seeps into all areas of life with its numbing and distancing effects. It creates a forever-January of the soul where the pain of thorns will not appear, nor will the blossoms of joy and hope.
The only remedy is to care. Do not fear pain; fear what it must say of your soul that you can no longer feel it. Growing in care may introduce various pains, but it is also our greatest channel for joy.
Feeling apathetic? Look for people to serve. Look for needs to meet. Do the very thing you wish someone would do for you. For those you are unable to serve or meet in their need, pray that God would bring others to care—and even seek to orchestrate it when possible.
Humbly cast your anxiety on the Lord.
And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. Be of sober spirit, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. But resist him, firm in the faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished among your brethren who are in the world. And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore, strengthen, confirm, and ground you. To Him be might forever and ever. Amen.
Take your apathetic thoughts captive to Christ.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the tearing down of strongholds, as we tear down speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
Care about people. Do good work. Stay humble. Hang tough.