The parable of The Good Samaritan was narrated by Christ, a thousand of years ago, to highlight the point "loving your neighbor", but the incidents of the story continues to happen even today.
No matter how modern our sensibility may be, how many times on our "road to Jericho" have we come across people in need of our of help, a victim of some heinous act, lying by the way, all tattered and in pain. And how many times have we chosen to look the other way, just go the other way, turning a deaf ear to their pleas, turning blind to their suffering. No matter what reasons we may have, what excuses we have to offer, we are like the priest and the Levite in the parable who chose to ignore the man lying on the road and go the other way. It takes courage and guts, to reach out and help someone lying by the way, someone needing our help. Consequences, self-doubt, suspicion, hesitation, fear, all hold us back from reaching out to help.
If we really want to show that we love our neighbors, the way God would want us to, we need to get over ourselves and our doubts. We need to put into practice the words we profess, cause who knows, on our roads to Jericho we find ourselves as the victim, hoping for a Good Samaritan to come along and save us.
No matter how modern our sensibility may be, how many times on our "road to Jericho" have we come across people in need of our of help, a victim of some heinous act, lying by the way, all tattered and in pain. And how many times have we chosen to look the other way, just go the other way, turning a deaf ear to their pleas, turning blind to their suffering. No matter what reasons we may have, what excuses we have to offer, we are like the priest and the Levite in the parable who chose to ignore the man lying on the road and go the other way. It takes courage and guts, to reach out and help someone lying by the way, someone needing our help. Consequences, self-doubt, suspicion, hesitation, fear, all hold us back from reaching out to help.
If we really want to show that we love our neighbors, the way God would want us to, we need to get over ourselves and our doubts. We need to put into practice the words we profess, cause who knows, on our roads to Jericho we find ourselves as the victim, hoping for a Good Samaritan to come along and save us.
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