Monday morning the men at McDonalds are beginning a new study entitled "Spiritual Detours". Our study takes us to the story of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37 where the "expert in the law" asked Jesus "what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" He answered his own question by quoting a passage from Deuteronomy 6:5 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” I think this explains it all but there is one question that arises; who is my neighbor?
What we learn from this story is that being a neighbor has nothing to do with how near we live to others, or how similar our religion or race. Being a neighbor depends simply on our humanity-- and our need.
Anyone you or I come in contact with who has a need is our neighbor. And to love our neighbor means to care enough to reach out, and help in any way we can.
Mother Teresa said this: "Because we cannot see Christ we cannot express our love to Him; but our neighbors we can always see, and we can do to them what, if we saw Him, we would like to do to Christ."
So, what have we done for our neighbor? Shame on us if we are like the "priest" and the "Levite".
It rained today!
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