You know when God gives someone the right words at just the right time?
Read this story from Doug Loveday who preached one Sunday this past summer at Mount Zion Worship Centre in Toronto:
“Not sure what to preach on, I chose the Good Samaritan.
At the end of the sermon, I asked everyone who they were in the story. The beat up person in the ditch? The one walking by on the other side of the road? Or the one helping his perceived enemy who is suffering?
Then I asked who Jesus was in this story. Could he be the one in the ditch, beaten, abused, the perceived enemy?
Didn’t Jesus say “As often as you do this unto one of the least of these, you do it unto me?”
After, Pastor Misgina explained to me about the tension between Ethiopian and Eritrean people due to the current fighting and killing in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
There are “perceived “enemies on different sides of the war.
This is dividing people – even in Canada.
When we think of throwing a stone at our perceived enemy, can we see that it could be Jesus? Would we throw a stone at Jesus?
There was the call to love our enemies and to pray for them, to do good and bless them.
We rejoiced together – seeing that the LORD knew what His people needed to hear and used this unknowing servant to deliver it.
Praise be to God.”