It is a great time to be alive! The possibilities are endless! So many opportunities abound! Popular media and culture carve out a route and chart the course for the average life. I realize that there is just an extreme focus on the notion of “every man for himself. This “protect me and mine” culture will never create the change we all want to see in the world.
Lately, I have been thinking about stories that shared with me when I was a little girl, such as the one of both the Good Samaritan. I remember the first time that I listened to that story, and I also remember the first time I read it with myself. There were so many questions that popped into my mind! Questions such as why the Good Samaritan would choose to help but not just that, why would he have chosen to help a stranger.I imagined a situation like that in 2021; what if you came upon someone who was hurt? What if you passed an accident? What if you stumbled upon a crash victim? Someone who was injured, robbed, and beaten, what would you do? Images in the news and on social media tell me that the first point of action is to point click and shoot.
The average human being decides to record the incident, and my heart breaks every time I see that the first reaction is to capture rather than help. My mom always said that life is a cycle and what goes around comes around. What that has done is that it has helped me to respond in situations the way that I would want someone else to react ina similar situation if it were me. The Good Samaritan could have run ahead to call crowd to share of what he had. He DECIDED to help with the healing of a stranger. I believe he made that decision because he knew that the story would have been told anyways whether it was at that moment or after healing had taken place.
If tomorrow you are on your way and you find yourself in a situation where someone is in trouble, in need of your help, or hurting. I charge you to respond the way you would want someone to respond to you. The story does not need to be captured right away the story will be told if you show others that you care. A different version of the story would probably be shared if you give assistance. Being a Good Samaritan is a more remarkable story line than being the one who caught an attack or a tragedy on video. The scripture tells us ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
