Reading
SAA Notes
This parable is a frightening one – frightening for your complacency and mine. True religion is of most earthly use!
SJA Notes
* Dear God, thank You for this day, and for Your word that we can read on this day. Please help us to understand You a little better today.
“… One of the least of these …”
How do we, God’s people, treat those in our midst who are weak and vulnerable, those who are the least?
For both the sheep and the goats, God’s focus is on the treatment of the “least of these”.
How we treat people is a very important indicator of the truth of our hearts.
The hypocrisy of giving-to-be-seen-by-others can be easy to identify in other people.
Can we see it in ourselves?
* Good Shepherd God,
Please give us a heart after Your own heart, a desire to see Your Name praised, that we bear it well.
Please help us to give of ourselves in generosity without thought of return.
Please give us opportunity to serve those around us.
Please help us to give to those in need from what we have, to welcome, to clothe, to visit and show other-centred love.
We are Your sheep Lord, may we love as You have loved us.
Amen.