Reaching Beyond Ourselves


By Marcia K. Leaser

February 2, 2012

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Matthew 22: 37 - 39

 

Reaching Beyond Ourselves

 

On the news the other night, I heard how an elderly man was struck down in the middle of the street by a hit and run driver. 

  

 That was bad enough, but the cars following the vehicle that sped away, just drove around the man lying in the street. 

  

 People kept walking along on the sidewalks ignoring him, and the few who did stop to see what was going on did nothing; absolutely NOTHING to help this man.

 

I pray we won’t see anything that gruesome in our lives.  But we see people in the gutters of life every day who are unaware there is life beyond yesterday… crippled by a past that keeps them from becoming a forgiven child of God.

 

Have we become so apathetic we don’t care there are people all around us: neighbors or perhaps someone in our own family who is fighting for salvation this very day. 

 

Fighting a battle they don’t believe they can win?

 

Begging silently to belong.  To become a part of this family of God, but having no idea how to join.

 

Stained glass windows are beautiful; I find myself admiring them often, but we need to remember there is a whole world on the other side of those windows that would give anything to be looking at them from the inside out.

 

We, as a family of God, need to reach beyond the humans we are - to the persons God wants us to become.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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