BLESSED BY BEING A GOOD SAMARITAN

My Dear Precious Child, In Luke's writing the gospel one of the parables he included was the parable of the good Samaritan. He preceded it by reporting what Jesus Christ confirmed to a lawyer who asked about inheriting eternal life when Jesus answered by asking what was written in the Law? The lawyer said it says to love Me with your whole heart, soul, strength and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus said that if he could do that, that eternal life would be his. It was after that exchange of words that Luke wrote about the good Samaritan when Jesus asked the lawyer who his neighbor is. Jesus then told the parable saying that a man was on a trip from Jerusalem to Jerico and was confronted by a group of robbers who took all that he had, beat him and then took off leaving him almost dead. A priest was traveling on the same road and when he saw the man he merely passed by on the other side. In the same way, a Levite priest who was traveling on the same road also came to the place where the injured man laid and also passed to the other side. But a Samaritan from another country was traveling on the same road and he was moved with compassion when he saw the injured man, bandaged his injuries poured oil and water on them, lifted the injured man up onto his horse, carried him to an inn and looked after him. The next day he took out two large coins and handed them to the keeper of the inn. The Samaritan asked the keeper of the inn to please take care of the man and that he would pay him for any added expenses later. Jesus asked the lawyer who of the three men proved himself to be a good neighbor to the man who was robbed, beaten and left to die? The lawyer said the man who took pity of him. Jesus told the lawyer to go and do the same thing. Remember that Jews and Samaritans were prevented by Law to even talk to each other. Yet, the Samaritan had pity on the Jewish man who had been accosted. Jesus said for you to go and do likewise, yourself. In the parable of the Samaritan that Jesus taught to His disciples, there was more than merely a command to be compassionate and kind to other people in that story. Because of the Jewish Law limiting with whom the Jews could communicate, the Samaritan was breaking Jewish Law by being kind to the injured man. However, the Samaritan's compassion bypassed the knowledge that he had about the Jewish Law commanding that Jews were not to talk to Samaritans and vice versa. He did what his compassion led him to do, not his knowledge of the religious Laws. The parable was also prophetic about how the salvation of the world was going to go to the Gentile pagans because the Laws of the Jewish nation were punitive instead of compassionate. That parable is not just a lesson for My children to be kind to people who are in need of it, but that for My parable to mean for you to be especially compassionate to people of different nationalities who have been ignored, rejected and declared unclean by the Laws of your religion or nationality. The deeper truth in this parable relates to your being willing to break your own strict religious and political laws in order to be compassionate and kind, especially to people whose skin, beliefs and customs are different than yours are. The prophetic part of it was that Jesus Christ was prophesying that the Salvation of the world and humanity would be given to the Gentiles because of the rejection and execution of Jesus Christ by the Jews at the time. They were convinced that Jesus Christ was motivated by the devil instead of their having the discernment to know that He was motivated by Me and My compassion. His prophesy came true as the Jews caused Jesus Christ to be arrested, harassed, nailed to a cross and displayed for all to see, experiencing utter shame before the masses of people. He was killed for the iniquities and sins of the entire world, not just for one nation. That is the deeper meaning of the parable of the Samaritan. Your Father of Mercy and Compassion