After extinguishing a large forest fire, a firefighter found a charred lump on the ground. He later identified this charred lump as the remains of a bird. He was surprised that the bird had not chosen to fly away and escaped the fire in time. The man overturned the bird and four small squeaking babies were underneath. The firefighter suspected that the mother knew that her babies had no chance to fly away and wouldn’t have survived in the fire alone. So, instead of leaving them, she stretched her wings over her young and let herself be burned by the fire. A mother’s love is a powerful thing.
God knows that, like the young birds in the forest fire, we are helpless and lost in our lives. He decided to come to us and save us. God gave his one and only Son Jesus Christ, who paid for our sins by death on the cross. That is why, like those birds, whoever accepts his offer is saved forever!
“God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.”
Our hands… what an ingenious all purpose tool! We can touch, grasp, hold, pick up, throw, catch, write, open, close.. we can do a lot of incredible things with our hands. However, we can also do a lot of damage. Our hands do what we tell them to do. Therefore, we have to be diligent in what we choose to do with them.
It is wonderful when we use our hands to serve others, when our hands are outstretched to our neighbour in need. When we use our hands to help, and to raise others up. The crazy thing is that whoever helps others also helps himself. Service fills our hearts and gives us joy back. It’s how God created it.
Let us therefore, use our hands as tools to help and not destroy, to raise up instead of tear down, to love instead of hate. Let’s use our hands for the good of God and allow people to see his heart through us.
The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than this.
Unsere Hände: Was für ein geniales «AllzweckWerkzeug»! Wir können greifen, streicheln, anpacken, aufheben… Viel Gutes können wir damit vollbringen, aber auch zerstören und zuschlagen.
Unsere Hände führen das aus, was wir ihnen «auftragen» zu tun. Es ist wunderbar:
wenn wir unsere Hände nutzen, um anderen zu dienen
wenn unsere Hände ausgestreckt sind für den Nächsten
wenn sie bereit sind, Verwundete zu pflegen.
wenn sie bereit sind, helfend einzugreifen.
wenn sie bereit sind aufzurichten.
Das Schöne dabei ist: Wer anderen hilft, hilft auch sich selbst. Nächstenliebe erfüllt uns und gibt Freude zurück.
Lasst uns deshalb unsere Hände als Werkzeuge nutzen,
Wir sind soeben aus den Ferien zurück und wollen ausschlafen. Unangemeldeter Besuch steht vor der Tür. – Bewege ich mich aus meiner Komfortzone heraus und öffne die Türe im Pyjama oder lasse ich die Leute enttäuscht weggehen? Unser Leben bietet unendlich viele Möglichkeiten, die gemütlichere Variante zu wählen und das «Bitte nicht stören» Schild an unser Herz zu hängen.
Mal angenommen, es bestünde eine Notsituation. Zu Recht würde ich mir danach grosse Vorwürfe machen! Hätte ich nur…
Sind wir bereit unser ausgebuchtes Programm durchkreuzen zu lassen, um unserem Nächsten zu dienen? Jesus erzählte von einem überfallenen Mann, den die angesehenen Frommen liegen liessen. Ein einfacher, ausgegrenzter Samaritaner war barmherzig, pflegte ihn und brachte ihn in eine Herberge. Dort bezahlte er für seine Pflege, bis er wieder gesund war. Hätten Sie auch so gehandelt? Das meint Gott, wenn er von unserem Nächsten spricht.
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