Evening: Psalm 37:19-42; Ezra 1:1-11; Luke 10:25-37
Is there anyone - anyone - to whom, if they were in need, you would refuse mercy? This is Jesus’s implicit question in the parable. Anyone? In Jesus’s day, his people did not even associate with Samaritans, let alone treat them kindly. Yet, here a Samaritan shows mercy and kindness to a stranger. It’s as if an unkempt, cocaine-addicted male prostitute stopped to help a mugging victim who had earlier cursed him and refused to give him change for coffee. Mercy is life-giving love for the unlovable; all of them, rich or poor, are my neighbours.
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