Luke 10:25-37
This is the story of a man who was isolated and vulnerable on a difficult, dangerous, and frightening journey who set aside focusing on his own circumstances for just long enough to change another person’s life.
I think this story is pretty relevant to where we find ourselves today. We are all isolated to some degree…we are all vulnerable to some degree…we are all on a difficult and in many ways frightening journey. We are all living through circumstances that could overwhelm us. But, with this said, I still believe that this story, as well as the over-riding arc of the entire Bible, is that in all times and in all circumstances God’s people are to live other-centered lives. We are to first love God with all that we are and then secondly, we are to love our neighbor.
The answer to today’s question, ‘What now, now that everything has changed and I feel so isolated?’ for followers of Jesus is, ‘I am going to choose to love my neighbor.’ How that looks for you is determined by your own world. And again, many of you are already doing just this. Grace people are reaching out of their own isolation and showing love to those that are near to them in so many ways: calling our care center friends, our older congregants and our students just to pray for them and check up on them, making masks, delivering groceries, the list goes on and on. If you are looking for ways to help others just go to our website: gracechurch.us.
Here is a quote from Dave’s 2012 Isolation sermon. ‘We, the people of Grace Church, in the name of Jesus and by the power of the Holy Spirit, will love those who are isolated and lonely… we will love them as we love ourselves.’
My 2020 prayer, now that nothing is the same, is that we will do just this: that we, that you and I, will, in the name of Jesus and by the power of the Holy Spirit, in the midst of our own sense of isolation, we will love our neighbors as ourselves… that we will remember the compassion of the Good Samaritan and we will go and do the same.
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