What is the right time to protect people? When is the time for healing? When do we preserve life? In Mark 3.4 Jesus points out that it is always the right time to heal, preserve life, and do good. Today's political climate, at least in the United States and apparently in many other parts of the world, values death over life. Our governments pass legislation which encourages people to end their lives when they are no longer perceived as useful to society. Our governments would tell us that the unborn do not have human rights, nor do the very young children, the weak, the disabled. We hear of the ending of human life as a cost-saving measure. This ought not to be. It is not time to save money by harming people. It is always time to save people by doing good.
Lord, I have no idea what opportunities you will place before me today, opportunities to build up or to tear down, to harm or to heal, even to kill or preserve life. Remind me, Lord, how you, in giving your life so we might life, valued human life. Give me your heart, your mind, your priorities. Amen.
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