Week 9, Day 3 Reading: Luke 14:1-24
Luke 14:12-14 He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
These words of Jesus are very counter-cultural. They also go against the grain of our sinful flesh. So often when we do something for another, we so so with the thought in the back of our mind (if not in the forefront of our thinking) that perhaps they will thank us in some sort of tangible material way - an "I'll scratch your back if you'll scratch mine!" On the flip side, why invite "the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind?" Surely these people are not "fun" people to be around!
Yet Jesus turns our thinking upside down (as he so often does!). So given his words, two key questions for all of us: When was the last time you reached out to do something for the "less fortunate" among us? If you are like me ... the answer to that question is "too long!" That said, then, what will you do to rectify this sad situation in your life and do an act of kindness for someone who has no way of ever repaying you for that deed?
"Chew" on these questions ... then act. You will be better for it!
Thanks for stopping by . . .
pj
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