When a diseased woman
who was shunned by all others
approached Him for help and
took hold of His garment,
He neither condemned nor
dismissed her but blessed her.
When a fallen woman approached
Him to wash His feet,
Christ didn’t chastise her
but instead accepted her act of charity.
When the Pharisees criticized Him
for dining with a publican—
a man who represented the wrong profession,
the wrong politics, and an alien occupying nation—
Christ rebuked them saying that
His word and His love was for all.
Finally, when Jesus saw
the Samaritan woman at the well
He did not shun her as taboo would demand
for being a woman and a Samaritan
but spoke to her, taught her, and loved her.
Likewise, His parables taught that
we need to love and care for all people,
not just those like us,
because all are of worth to Him.
He is teaching that a measure of our discipleship
to Him is how we treat all others.
Do we pass judgment on and pass over others?
Or do we stop to aid and minister unto them?
