I was walking home from my local store.
I live just beyond a very busy T-junction and I often see people struggling to cross at awkward angles. In my opinion the junction needs a zebra or pelican crossing but that is an discussion for another day. Also, people need to cross one road at a time, let’s talk about that another time.
So, I was walking home with an organic cauliflower in my hands. Now I don’t normally plump for the value added organic variety but for 30c more it was way bigger than the un-organic version. My cauliflower in hand, it is 247 steps from the store to my door – so convenient, I was going through my to do list for Holy Week. My husband joked yesterday that for a quiet reflective week I sure was busy! Another story for another day.
A man was helping a lady with a disability aid – we used to call them sticks back in the day. He then turned and jumped back into his vehicle. It was then I realised he had stopped –
specifically to help the lady
and then he went on his journey. How cool is that! His mammy taught him manners, or he learned them along the way of life. Or maybe – just maybe he is following a different set of rules.
Rules that bring freedom and not guilt or shame.
Rules that allow breathing and not constraint.
Two rules well perhaps three if you want to go all in all.
Do you?
So here they are
Love God
Love people
Share Jesus
The Greatest Commandment
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:34-40
Love the Lord Your God
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Deuteronomy 6:4-7
The Great Commission
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:16-20
That is all.
The man typified a Christian response to seeing someone in need. I remarked to myself that ‘you don’t see that everyday,’ turned my corner and went home.
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