During
my time at seminary my spiritual director and I worked on being too busy. I’m the kind of guy that has too many
irons in the fire and he used to tell me, “Ben, we are human beings, not human doings.”
Today
we hear of a young scholar who wants to learn what to do to achieve salvation and justification. Jesus, through the parable of the Good
Samaritan, shows it’s not about doing
but about loving.
The
young scholar, priest and Levite all wanted to do things to earn a reward. The priest and Levite, following the
holiness code and avoiding the injured and bleeding man, did avoid him in the
pursuit of holiness. Yet they all
missed the point—the point isn’t what we do but how much we love.
Today
we pray that we may not be human doers,
but human lovers. And it is precisely through loving God
and neighbor that we discover the path to salvation and justification because
God is love.
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