Evening: Psalm 37:19-42; Ezra 1:1-11; Luke 10:25-37
Jesus’ Good Samaritan famously blows wide open what it means to be a neighbour. For Jesus, everyone is our neighbour. The religious people you expect to show neighbourliness instead ignore the plight of a man beaten by robbers. But a Samaritan foreigner helps him. Jesus changes forever the meaning of ‘neighbour’. Likewise, the meaning of the commandment now shifts to become: ‘Love everyone you meet as yourself.’ What an astoundingly difficult challenge! Whenever we are able to obey this commandment, even in small ways, human society takes one more step in the direction of wholeness.
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