Gut Feeling For Rotten Tooth

 "She has an abscessed tooth. Her face is so swollen and
she can't chew a thing!"  My friend said.
 "Sounds like she needs a dentist and I am not!" I casually
dispensed my advice.
 "She needs someone who will treat her for free because
she has no money!" He patiently insisted.
 "Oh!" Suddenly, I realized how insensitive I had been.
"Let me call a dentist friend of mine!"

 In Jesus' famous story, three persons saw the same dying
man suffering on the road.
"But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he
was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him."
Luke 10:33 (KJV)

 Christ made the contrast even more compelling by telling
us that the previous two were religious people who have
just returned from worshipping God in the temple.
Deliberate act of kindness always requires extra effort,
costs money and are frequently inconvenient.  The so-called
religious people were unwilling to pay the price.

 Until I can somehow feel other's throbbing pain in my
own mouth, the problem is never mine and urgent.
In the Greek concept, to be moved with compassion is to
be stirred up in one's intestine because that's where
they believed the source of love and pity were.

 When should I skip the advice, the empty talk of caring,
and instead, act out of love of Jesus when I see people
in need?

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