Jesus came to make God real for us. Jesus came to make God immediate to us, present to us. Through Jesus we experience God’s love directly. From Jesus we learn that the more we can love other people with His kind of “Christlike” love, the more a condition is created that makes it possible for God’s love to well up within us. The more open we are to the needs of others, the more we will experience God’s love in our own life. The Gospel makes it clear that this “Christlike” love for others is an all-inclusive love. It is not an “Archie Bunker” type of narrow, exclusive love: “Them people.” It is not only that our love for others must be an all-inclusive love; it must be an extravagant love.
The Good Samaritan encountered a man in need who was a natural enemy. Reflect seriously on the Parable of the Good Samaritan and you will discover, perhaps for the first time, how genuinely…
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