The Exodus reading is appropriate for all times but perhaps even more today with all the arguments around persons who are displaced because of natural or manmade disasters.
“Thus, says the LORD: “You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.” This is not an issue of politics it is an issue of justice. If not ourselves, who among us did not have ancestors who migrated to this land? All of us are aliens together traveling through this life. I remember a story by a Jewish author who when asked by a guest to his home where his furniture was. The rabbi answered, “where is your furniture?” The guest said, “I don’t have any as I am just passing through.” The rabbi answered, “So am I!” All of us are just passing through.
We have the obligation to think, “If I were in that person’s shoes, how would I like others to treat me?” Remember it says to love our neighbor AS ourselves. It is clear then that if we do not love our neighbor, we obviously do not love ourselves either! Jesus said, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him.” When they come, do we presume to think we will recognize them? Jesus says, “Whatever you did to the least, you did to me.” How can we claim to love a God whom we cannot see when we cannot love the person we do see? Jesus made it clear that we cannot separate love of God from love of neighbor when he responds, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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