\u201cBut a Samaritan on his journey came to him, and when he saw the man, he had compassion.\u201d Luke 10:33 CSB
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Confession time, I found a list of 101 random acts of kindness I\u2019m using as a cheat sheet for ideas. I found the list on pinterest, then I play little games with the list. Today, I decided whichever random act I landed on with my highlighter, I\u2019d write a devotional on it. And this is what I landed on: Recycle things you see on the road. I immediately thought of the Good Samaritan, who we will call Sam. Here\u2019s a long story short found in Mathew 10. Jesus used this parable to answer the question: who is my neighbor? There is a man beaten on the side of the road, the first person to pass him by is the Priest. In other words, the Lead Pastor of the church kept strolling when he saw a man bleeding and dying. Next came the Levite, who also keeps on walking. Levites are God\u2019s chosen people, they\u2019ve been manning the Temple from the beginning of time. He kept on walking too. But Sam doesn\u2019t, Sam stops and helps him. He goes beyond helping him on the side of the road, he takes him to a hotel and pays the bill. The guy was amazing, but according to the Priests and Levites, the Samaritans were scum of the earth. God didn\u2019t love them. Yet when Jesus wanted to illustratrate the point, \u201cwho is your neighbor?\u201d, He used this story. Your neighbor is everyone.
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There\u2019s another point to this story. My Bible doesn\u2019t say \u201cwho\u201d the man was in the ditch. He very well may have been a Samaritan, maybe that is why Sam helped him, we\u2019ll never know. But if the first two men who professed to love God so much, men whose lives were spent trying to follow His law, why didn\u2019t they help? How can you spend all of your time studying God\u2019s word and yet not show love to people? I know, since I started back to school, I\u2019ve studied God\u2019s word more than I ever have before in my life. His word has changed me. I\u2019m not the same person I was 9 months ago. He has healed me. He has challenged me. He has grown me. And I feel like the journey has just begun. How could these men walk by a man on the side of the road and not help him? Because they didn\u2019t know Jesus, that\u2019s why. The Priest and the Levite\u2019s hearts weren\u2019t focused on God and others, their hearts were focused on themselves. They probably didn\u2019t even notice the guy because they were caught up on their phones. I\u2019ve done the same thing. I\u2019ve not noticed people before, I\u2019m ashamed to admit it, but I have. I\u2019ve been too busy to notice someone standing right beside me. I\u2019ve missed Divine Appointments, because I was too busy thinking about myself. I\u2019m trying to change that, but the journey ahead is long and the road is not easy.
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But today, I can recycle things on the road.\u00a0 Maybe I\u2019ll recycle a tin can, or maybe I\u2019ll help heal a broken heart.\u00a0 May you do the same! God only knows which way the day will go!
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