1.31.2007

Action

"Everytime the Gospels mention that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions or felt sorry for people, it led to his doing something--physical or inner healing, delieverance or exorcism, feeding the hungry crowds or praying for others. The Good Samaritan was commended precisely because he acted. The priest and Levite, paragons of Jewish virtue, flunked the test because they didn't do anything. 'Which of these three, in your opinion, was the neighbor to the man who fell in with the robbers?' The answer came, 'The one who treated him with compassion.' Jesus said to them, 'Then go and do the same.'"
(Brennan Manning)

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
1 John 3:17-18

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