An interesting thought

I gave a talk this morning on serving and had a few after thoughts about it. We watched a video called "what would you do." It showed a man sitting on the side of the road with a sign saying "Need Help."

What would you do in this situation? It asked what if we thought that he wouldn't use the money for alcohol or what if he had a dibilitating mental illness, and then the stinger, what if he were God's son?

I got to thinking about this whole serving thing and how me focused we are here in America, even in the churches. I can't say that I don't fall into this category a lot of times, but why can't I change that? Why can't we all change that? I'm not talking about us becoming big time philanthropists or anything, but doing the small things that show people who Jesus really is and was.

What if we helped that mom whose baby throws their bottle halfway down the grocery store isle? What if we took our change and sent it off to help buy rice for starving children. How difficult is that really?

The small things, that's what we need to be about. We need to stop this meistic way of thinking and start looking for opportunities to serve our fellow humans in love. Is it really that hard? You know in the story of the good samaritan, after Jesus told the story He asked the keeper of the law who he thought was the neighbor to the guy, in which he replied the samaritan. Jesus tells the guy go do likewise.

To me, there's the answer to what we should be doing. We should not be avoiding but helping.