30 On a dark evening, a man was walking home from his friend’s house. As he was passing the Gas Station on the corner, some men jumped out from behind a bush and attacked him. They took his coat, his iPhone, and all his money, and after beating him up, they left. He lay on the side of the road, almost dead. The next morning was Sunday. 31 A pastor drove along the road where this man was. He was blasting the Christian radio station in his car and loudly singing along to ‘They will know we are Christians by our love’. He saw the man on the side of the road, and knowing that he was already running behind, the pastor passed him by. 32 The next car that passed was an assistant pastor. He too passed the man, and as he was driving off, his “I heart Jesus” bumper sticker was visible. 33 The next car that came was driven by a man who had three hyper kids in the back of his car. They had just been grocery shopping, and they had ice cream melting in the back of their car. Even though it would have been easier for him to just drive by and pass the injured man by as the other two had done, he stopped his car and got out to help the man. 34 He cleaned the man’s injuries with the Peroxide and Cotton balls he had just bought, and after the man was feeling a bit better, he helped him into his car. He brought the man to the Holiday Inn down the street. 35 All night the father thought about the man who had been injured who he had helped to the Holiday Inn. Early the next morning, he drove to the Holiday Inn and gave the clerk his credit card. He told him to charge whatever he needed to on the card to make the man comfortable for the night.
Love it! Such a reminder, too, that it's ultimately our love that makes a difference, not how good our actions seem to be.
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