October 11, 2023
GO AND DO LIKEWISE
Tom Logan
MMM Co-founder and President
"Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.” Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.” - Luke 10:36-37
The Priest and the Levite in the parable of the Good Samaritan were not bad people; they represented the respected leaders of the day. It’s just that they did nothing. It was the heretic, the half breed, the Samaritan that Christ held up as the example to follow. Why? Because he did something…he reached out to his neighbor in need.
At times I think we study the problems too much. We make them too complicated and end up with what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King called “paralysis of analysis.” If people need water, you dig a well. You don’t study it to death, you pick up a shovel.
My solution to everything is the same. Very simple. Whatever the problem, whatever the difficulty, whatever the tragedy: pray, and while you pray, dig a well. Be involved in a miracle. Share Christ’s love. Feed the hungry; give the thirsty safe drinking water. Go the second mile to greet those who look or believe different. Invite them to the front of the line, buy their lunch, smile and make them feel welcome (safe)…at the grocery store, gas station, restaurant, wherever. We must not wait; we must do it now.
“Too often,” as Tony Campolo has said, “we tiptoe through life, so we can arrive at death safely.” The world is in chaos. Wars, Covid pandemic, floods, windstorms, fires, gun violence, computer viruses, cyber-attacks. On and on and on.
Yet, last year MMM had the best year ever! Why? The light that shines through Marion Medical Mission is so desperately needed...especially now. Marion Medical Mission means loving your neighbor as yourself. MMM has built almost 50,000 wells. And we build them where the rural poor are…where no one else will go. IMPOSSIBLE!
• The problem is not the corona virus.
• The problem is not Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
• The problem is not the Republicans, the problem is not the Democrats.
• The problem is not the immigrants – legal or illegal.
• The problem is not Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
• The problem is not the Republicans, the problem is not the Democrats.
• The problem is not the immigrants – legal or illegal.
The problem is good people who do nothing.
May God give you the grace never to sell yourself short; grace to risk something big for something good; and grace to remember the world is now too dangerous for anything but the truth and too small for anything but love (The Rev. William Sloane Coffin)
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