Jesus said, "Whenever you've done it to the least of these, My brethren, you've done it unto Me." The "it" He's talking about is help, whether that's visiting someone who's sick or in prison, feeding someone who's hungry, giving water to someone who's thirsty, clothing someone who's naked, or meeting a need.
How does that motivate you? I'm not sure, but most of the time I think about this my heart wells up and I'm not thinking about inconvenience or how I'm "put out" by whatever it is I'm giving or doing. It becomes an act of helping a fellow human being, a fellow traveller, a fellow struggler through this journey. Even if someone does not trust Jesus and we can accurately determine theologically that his/her father is the devil, that doesn't make it okay to watch them suffer, does it? Love is unconditional, or it's not really love.
I had a good time in Sacramento at Youth Specialties last weekend, and would like to share some of it, which I plan to do after I "catch up" on some things pending.
Bless your "catch up" time.
Posted by: solomon at October 4, 2005 09:05 AM