Luke 10:36-37 [Jesus said] “Which of these
three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands
of the robbers?” [A lawyer] said,” The one who showed him mercy.” Jesus
said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
I can’t pass a man begging without thinking of my son. That man was once someone’s little baby. Somewhere between that innocent baby and the raggedy man on the street, something bad happened. No one begs because it’s enjoyable.
I can’t pass a woman begging without thinking of my mother. What if our lives had gone just a little differently? What if she’d been just a little less hale and hearty? The difference between a home and being homeless is sometimes just one late payment.
Show mercy. Imagine it’s you. Imagine the stranger is your child, your mother, your friend. Treat strangers as well as you would want them to treat your loved ones.
Go and do likewise.
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