The blog I began writing yesterday needs a few more days of work to get it ready for posting, so today I’ve chosen this poem, written a while ago. With several demanding medical issues going on at present, it’s a pleasure to dip into my store of pieces prepared earlier. I always knew they had a purpose, and now I’m discovering what it is!
Love the stranger (Deuteronomy 10:19; NKJV).
In life,
Are you a friend to strangers –
Everyone whose path
You cross?
In life,
Are you a friend to strangers –
Those in trouble,
Hurt, or lost?
In life,
Are you a friend to strangers?
Loving is
Your sacred task.
“In life,
Were you a friend to strangers?”
This is what the Lord
Will ask.
In due season God will judge everyone, both good and bad, for all their deeds (Ecclesiastes 3:17; NLT).
Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me (Matthew 25:40; NIV).