That guy is my neighbor? That is often the reaction that people have, at least viscerally, to the Parable of the Good Samaritan. Jesus is telling me to love that guy? That can’t be what he meant. There has to be an out clause somewhere in that commandment: someway that I can exclude those people or that individual. There is no out clause. We are commanded to love all. How’s that going for you? If you are like me, rough at times. As we read the words of this familiar parable again, let us ask God to show us those times where we have not treated our fellow man as our neighbor.
That Guy Is My Neighbor?
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