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Who is Your Neighbor? (Part 2)

Daily Scripture Threshing for Friday, October 29, 2021


Today’s Text: Luke 10:29-37


Key Verses: Luke 10:37 (NIV): “The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.” Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.

No doubt, postmodernism has jolted the human race to many unexpected corners. Whatever happened? We definitely have been taught to perceive and/or treat every other person differently than us with a justified sense of hostility, rejection, and enmity. It doesn’t feel strange for us whether we are Christians or not to build fences and spew out hate against people that are supposed to be our neighbors. Despite globalization, it feels ok for our generation to inscrutably treat people of the outer world as shit-holes, barbarians, outcasts, terrorists, rapists, and disdainful. Some of those people maybe those things, but that certainly is not a fair general estimation of people unknown to us. The permeating force of the Christian spirit is to love all peoples just as God loves the whole world.


Since we are Christians, our citizenship and culture are no longer primarily secular. Christ in us does not make us any less Jewish, American, Nigerian, or British, but we are more Christian above all. Therefore, we must be guided by the culture of Christ, which removes all the limiting realities of color, class, or creed. In Christ, there are no walls: all men have been brought closer in inescapable neighborliness. We are better lights for Christ when we open our hearts, alms, and spaces to others needing love, kindness, acceptance, forgiveness, healing, hope, help, and heaven. Religion gets us to do charity and moves us to toss coins in offering plates for the sake of people in faraway lands, but an only personal relationship with Jesus Christ births genuine brotherly love that truly accepts them as one with us. This parable of Christ teaches us that doing something good for the welfare of others and helping them selflessly as devotion to God are logical and consistent evidence of faith.


Quote for the Day: “Every strange face or different race is a reflection of the different shade and shape of grace. They point us daily to the amazing wonder and beauty of God’s image in creation.” (Simon Olatunji)


Prayer: Dear Lord, please teach me to see others through your eyes. Teach me to be less judging and more loving; to see them, like I see myself, not as perfect but as wonderful product of grace, in Jesus’ name. Amen.


With all my love and prayers,


Rev Simon Wale Olatunji, Ph.D

The Darling Bishop (DaBishop)


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