Parable of the Good Samaritan…
36“Now which of these three would you say was a neighbor to the man who was attacked by bandits?” Jesus asked.
37The man replied, “The one who showed him mercy.”
Then Jesus said, “Yes, now go and do the same.”
Luke 10:36-37 (NLT)
The Invisible One’s
Good morning!
Today I want to bring your attention to that person driving in the car next to you, yes that one who's head is bobbing to the music. Or the one you just walked passed on your way to your office, hurting so bad but no knows. Maybe you are in a grocery store and you stepped in front of someone while picking up a can of green beans…you smile, but say nothing, they kind of step to the side and say nothing as well…
You’re in the doctor’s office, the room is full, you feel a little awkward but head for a seat, the only one left, next to a stranger. Without acknowledging one another, you both sit side by side, feeling the silence between you.
Later you are driving home and you notice the ‘street person’ with his cardboard sign that says..."I'm hungry" he's standing in the median…but you don’t dare look his way…the light is red and you can hardly wait for it to turn green… You scream in your mind, “Please don’t come to my window, please, light hurry up and change. Oh why did I think, change?” You look down at the change sitting there in the little groove under your radio dial. The light changes…whew thank goodness…you’re off the hook.
We have eight hundred and something friends on Facebook but they are all invisible…oh there are pictures and laughter and tears, you share everything in your life with them, but never once do you physically touch…
Oh the fantastic invention of technology…cold and isolated...
Where is our sense of community … humanity…I watch as people become less and less in-touch with each other and more and more distant and farther and farther apart from…What happened to the generation where others reached out with a helping, loving hand, when someone was in need?
God made us to be human…to be relational…I challenge you today to go out of your way and give someone a great big HUG and KISS, in the physical realm today!
Keep your Facebook friends too…but be a Good Sam today as well!
Even animals still make contact when passing someone. Why because God put that in them...and they don't know how to relate to technology...at least not yet! LOL!
Let’s pray…
Father God…Let us see someone today, literally touch someone. Smile, hug, laugh, and talk with others. Help us to come out of our invisibility mode and instead of a text message, let us call the person or better still go and visit them…so that we can hear their voice, and see their expressions and to understand we need each other more than we ever have before. Just as you said Jesus, “You go and do the same!” Amen.
By: Marla Shaw O'Neill October 2, 2015©
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