Greetings Dear Reader,
Imagine for a moment that a young child comes up to you
crying, bleeding, and asking for help.
What requirements do you put in place before you aid the child? What do you demand in order to stop the
bleeding and render assistance?
If the answer is anything but “nothing” there is a
problem. We easily extrapolate this to
the larger scale. We are horrified at
the idea of someone doing this to a child.
We do, however, do this daily to people who are out of sight. We do it as a matter of course to those who we
do not encounter.
We base our rendering of aid in those who have need on what
might happen if we help the wrong person.
We build a hedge around helping strangers because we are afraid we might
accidentally help an enemy. The difficulty is that we are required to love
our enemies. We are obligated to help
those in need. We are to do so
sacrificially.
There will be those who take advantage of our trust. Our kindness will be seen as weakness or
abused. We will be lied to and harmed by
being good. None of that mitigates the
need to do so. Nothing alleviates our
obligation to love others and care for their needs.
There is no hedge we can build around the pain, need, and suffering
of others that shields us from the fact that it is our responsibility to
help. All we can accomplish is to fail
our fellow humans and hedge ourselves in from the vast joy that comes from
giving. The world is filled with
opportunity to be good to others and we must not box out that opportunity based
on what might happen. That would fly in
the face of the whole love your neighbor and your enemy and everyone idea.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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Thorn:
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