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LIVING WATER DAILY DEVOTIONAL
HELP SOMEBODY!

28TH , JUNE 2022 

 

EXTRA READING FOR TODAY:  Psalms 86-89

READ:  Luke 10:25-37

  

25 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

26 He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”

27 And 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.”

28 And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”

29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

30 Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead.

31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.

32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

33 But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.

34 He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

35 And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’

36 Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?”

37 He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.”

 

 

MEMORISE: “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.”   -Proverbs 3:27,28

 

 

 

EXPOSITION

If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him* (Lev. 25v35a). There is the tendency, these days, for some Christians to assume the undue role of a false complainant, lecturer, preacher, or even God, when someone, especially unwanted, in need to help asks for it. Such acts fail to fulfil the perfect law of God, which is LOVE. This attitude is most prominent among those who think they have some things that make them better than others in terms of education, money, status, etc.

        The living God knows that there would be inevitable times of individual depression and recession, hence the command and provision for His people to remember their fellows when such times come (Lev. 19v9,10). God desires that we create a specially dedicated part of our possessions to take care of the need of the less privileged (Deut.26v12-14). Ministers of God, widows, orphans, strangers, and even angels are provided for in all these (Gal. 6v1-10, Heb. 13:1,2).

          

We should preach Christ more with our earthly goods in these days of economic stringency rather than our grammatical fluency, academic weight, self-righteousness, and words of condemnation. Today's devotional text is among many such that our Lord Jesus Christ authoritatively confirmed and scripturally established as part of several divine injunctions and moral responsibility of the true believers (Matt. 9v10-13; 12v1-7). May we be soul winners and not mere preachers and signposts. Amen. Help someone today!

 

 

 

PRAYER POINT:

1. Confess all your sins of insincerity, hypocrisy, and stinginess to God and your fellows. Ask God for forgiveness and cleansing through the blood of Jesus.

2. Pray for a compassionate and discerning heart to know when and how to help others unconditionally, as well as who to help.

3. Pray that God should fill the heart of our leaders (secular and spiritual) with true compassion for the citizenry so that they would stop treating the masses like nobodies.

 

DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY

 

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