06/12/2026
Donât tell people what your faith is.
Show them.
Show them in how you love.
In how you treat the wounded.
In how you respond to the people everyone else steps around.
And eventually, theyâll know exactly what your faith is.
You'll be known by your fruit.
By your love.
Jesus already gave us the blueprint in the Good Samaritan.
A beaten man is lying in the road...
Two religious men walk by... men who knew the Scriptures, knew the rules, and looked like the kind of people everyone assumed were close to God.
But they kept walking.
Maybe the man was too messy.
Too inconvenient. Too risky.
Too costly. Too easy to ignore.
Then the Samaritan shows up.
The outsider.
The one the religious crowd would have dismissed.
And he stops and helps.
With no judgment.
No worthiness test.
No âwhat about his choices?â
No âhow did he end up like this?â
No "pull up your bootstraps!"
No "helping you is socialism."
The Samaritan simply moves toward the need instead of away from it.
He treats the wounded man like someone made in the image of God.
And Jesus is not subtle here.
If our faith looks more like the passersby than the SamaritanâŚ
If we are more committed to our comfort, our politics, our suspicion, or our opinions about who âdeservesâ love, help, or compassionâŚ
Then we are not living the faith Jesus taught. We are living a faith shaped by everything but Jesus.
The Samaritan didnât stop to ask whether the man was worthy.
He stopped because the man was hurting.
He didnât talk about love.
He did love.
And Jesus said,
âGo and do likewise.â
Thatâs the assignment.
Love first.
Ask fewer questions.
Cross the road.
