Just A Little While

There are many people dealing with hardships that never seem to end. As soon as one difficulty subsides, another rushes in to take its place, like a choreographed evil race. People are weary. Jesus’ parable, in Luke 10, about the Good Samaritan, is filled with a special promise that must not be missed.

A man had been robbed, beaten, stripped, and left bleeding on the side of the road. A priest and a Levite walked by with no compassion for their fellow human. Along came a Samaritan who had pity on him, who cleaned and bandaged his wounds, placing him on his own donkey, and took him to an inn to care for him. This is the part that is thrilling...

“The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the inn keeper. ‘Look after him, and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have” (vs 35).  A denarius was a day’s wages. He gave the inn keeper two day’s wages, with a promise to pay whatever extra was needed upon his return.

We are the beaten man in this picture, marred by the sins of this world. Religion (the priest), and the law (the Levite), don’t care for our souls. The Samaritan is a picture of Christ, whom the world despised, giving us saving Grace, a path to life, and a promise to care for us until He returns. The inn keeper is a picture of the Holy Spirit, our Comforter, and it’s been 2 ‘millennia’ days on God’s calendar.

How precious that we have been saved from sin, within and without, and are being cared for until Christ returns. Take heart, dear friends, He has promised to return for us. In just a little while...

(Devotional by Cheryl Hall-Laos)