Breakfast with God 20250813

[Roby.evans]

Good Morning Friends

Today I pose the following question to each of us. “What type of UPPER are you”? My study today comes from the Parable of the Good Samaritan as told by Jesus in The Gospel of Luke 10: 30-37 NKJV. Jesus tells of a man who is leaving the protection of God and descending into Sin and the interaction of three distinct groups or types of persons who come upon him. First were the Thieves/Robbers or “The Beater-Uppers, next were a Priest and a Levite or “The Passer-Uppers”, and lastly a Good Samaritan or “The Picker-Upper”. Jesus tells us continually to have mercy and to be compassionate to our brother/sister but what does that really mean to me? What is mercy, it is no more than compassion in action. How many times have we walked past or driven past someone and thought or said, “someone needs to do something”, well I would imagine we all have, and we are in effect just like the Priest and the Levite “a Passer-Upper” and this is contrary to Christ Teachings because we all have the ability be a “Picker-Upper” to someone who is in need, someone with whom we can show Mercy to through Compassion in Action.

What if we (VRAP) established a goal or a challenge to be The Samaritan "Picker-Upper" for a week, a month, a quarter, a year, etc., and put our Compassion in Action as we try to walk the walk and talk the talk with Jesus in our hearts and minds. I know the infeasibility and unsurmountable tasking of helping every single person but helping just ONE at a time is a starting place and can be infectious as well.

Lord, my prayer today is that You will use my family, my friends and I as emissaries to Your Kingdom as we too show Mercy and Compassion though our actions just as You have shown to us as our Merciful Savior and Redeemer. Lord let us seek out, reach out, and touch someone and show them that we “Christians” are not like the Priest, Levites, and Robbers but are like the image of You as the Good Samaritan. In His name I pray, AMEN.

Remember, Mercy is Compassion in Action