Think And Let Think

Jesus is free among the dead - He is the one who, again and again, is with the last, the least, the lost, the little, and the dead. If we want the parable to tell us to imitate the Good Samaritan, which it certainly does, then that’s fine. But if that’s all the Good Samaritan is good for, then it isn’t very good. Instead it leaves people like you and me feeling fine and guilty. We feel fine in terms of thinking about times we have been neighborly toward our neighbors, or it can leave us feeling guilty about the many times we haven’t. When, in fact, the whole story is about how Jesus is the one down in the ditch. That he, the Lord of lords, has condescended himself to our miserable existence and can be found in the place of our own ditch-ness and suffering.