Last
week, we read about how God's people get to be incarnational, how
they get to live like the people that they are living with, just like
Jesus did. But, what if the people that we are living with have
problems? What if they are hungry or thirsty or sick? What if someone
is being unfair to them? What do you think that God's people are
supposed to do then?
Yep.
You guys are pretty smart. Not everybody has always thought that that
was so simple. But, Jesus thought that it was important. Jesus
thought that it was so important that He told a story about it. This
is part of what He told the people who were listening.
“Then
the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed
by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you
since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me
something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I
was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you
clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and
you came to visit me.’
“Then
the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry
and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we
see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe
you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
“The
King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the
least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’”
(Matthew 25:34-40)
When
Jesus was incarnational, He used his words to tell people about God's
story, his own story, but He also used His actions to show that God's
story really was true. He fed people when they were hungry, not by
making bread fall down from the sky, like in the Old Testament, but
by finding out what the people he was with did
have, and then making that little bit more...
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