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Luke 10:25-28
Just then a
lawyer stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’
he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ He said to him, ‘What is written in
the law? What do you read there?’ He
answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all
your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor
as yourself.’ And he said to him,
‘You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.’
Eternal
life in a ditch
Eternal life is where
Love and mercy are. Sometimes it is found in a ditch.
Seldom do we think of our
struggles or our neighbor’s needs as an invitation to know eternal life, which
means we fail to see as Jesus sees. Failing to see as he sees, we fail to know what
he knows: the life of eternity amid the banal daily-ness of where we are and what
we are doing.
Useful discussion as far
as they go, but they miss the spiritual depth of the story and blind us to the invitation
to eternal life that surrounds us every moment.
Eternal life invites us into its sweet embrace every
time and in every place love beckons us to help, to care, to support the struggling
and diminished life of others. It coaxes us into its arms every time we hear
the laughter that sparkles among human hearts truly connected and comfortable
with each other.
It was not only a broken and beaten man that lay in
the ditch as the Samaritan made his way down the road. Eternal life lay there,
bleeding and begging him to open the door and enter.
The Samaritan crawled into the ditch to pull the man
to safety and care. But both men were saved. Both were lifted into eternal
life, tasting the mercy of God.
Eternal life is as close as a soul who needs you. It
is as near as the sound of loving laughter. It is the flow of eternal mercy
that flows from the heart of God through every moment of our lives, seeking to
carry us into life.
Pr.
David L. Miller
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