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Introduction
I was driving the other day to make a visit and heard a song on the radio that I had never heard.
It was a simple song that was called Be Somebody’s Miracle.
It was performed by the gospel group Brian Free and Assurance.
I had to look up the words and as I did, I was moved with their simplicity.
Be Somebody’s Miracle
Somebody somewhere’s got something that’s weighing them down;
Feels like their whole world is crumbling, crashing to the ground
They’re pleading
They’re praying
Saying Jesus help me please
And I know He that He will
But sometimes you and I
We gotta be
SOMEBODY’S MIRACLE
Somebody’s answer to prayer you know
Everybody’s got a need
Yeah it’s up to you and me
We could be we could be
Somebody’s Miracle
You know you don’t have to look
too far at all...
To find the hopeless and hurting
In and outside these walls
They’re bruised and they’re broken
Just hoping someone will see
They need the love of Jesus
Oh we have the chance to be...
Somebody’s Miracle!
As I have listened to this song more and more, I have asked myself, am I somebody’s miracle?
What does the Bible say about me becoming somebody’s miracle?
What can I do to position myself in becoming somebody’s miracle?
Once again we can turn to the Bible and utilize it’s precepts and principles as we live out God’s design for our lives.
Jesus told a story about being somebody’s miracle.
We find it only in Luke’s Gospel.
Luke 10
We are called to be a people of action.
In fact, the Gospel is three-pronged: it is evangelism, it is discipleship and it is social action.
This passage is the indeed social action.
It is an opportunity to be somebody’s miracle.
There are six characters in this story that at anytime, we can be any one of them depending on what we how we handle such a situation.
Notice first the lawyer.
This man lived by the law.
He was justifying himself in saying that, “I have done everything right, I am justified by my works.”
The world is full of people that say exactly those words.
When asked, “what should I do to inherit eternal life?, “ Jesus looked directly to the man and asked him a question: “what does the law say and what how do you interpret it?”
The lawyer rattled off the law.
He proudly stated what is known as the Hebrew Shema as what to do to inherit eternal life.
He says we must love God with all our hearts, we must prize Him and value ourselves and find our delight in Him.
Our love must be hearty, sincere and fervent.
It must be strong and intelligent.
It must be an entire love where nothing gets in the way of it and we must serve Him in a way that there is nothing equal to Him.
For good measure, the lawyer adds that we must love our neighbor as ourselves.
We should wish well to all and never wish anything bad to happen.
We must do all the good we can and do unto others as we want them to do to us, loving our neighbor as ourselves.
Jesus commends this man by saying to him, “You have answered correctly.”
Then He gave the words, “Do this and you will live.”
These words were haunting to the lawyer because he, trying to justify himself, asked, “And who is my neighbor?”
If he had no prejudice in his heart, if he truly had loved his neighbor, he would not have had to ask that question.
As I studied this lawyer’s response I can’t help but wonder if you and I can identify with him.
What would be our answer if we were asked, “How much time have you spent with the Lord? would it be enough evidence for you to say that you love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind?
Do you love your neighbor as yourself?
Jesus goes on to answer the question by telling the story we have come to know as the Good Samaritan.
He paints a picture of a man going down the road from Jerusalem to Jericho.
Obviously it was a dangerous section and evidently robberies were very frequent there.
He is robbed.
He is beaten and wounded.
He is stripped of his clothes.
He is left for dead.
Can you imagine?
He was humiliated.
He was in pain.
He was deserted.
No one plans for this.
No one expects for this to happen.
But we can plan how to respond by looking at how 3 different men responded.
The Bible says that the first man that came along was priest.
The Bible says he “happened to be going down the same road.”
Was it providential that the priest should go down this road?
Do things just happen by coincidence or was this a divine appointment?
He did not like the look of the wounds and blood.
He did not want to disrupt his journey.
Have you ever thought about this priest and the direction he was going?
He was going down the road.
Jericho is at 800 feet below sea level, and Jerusalem is 2,500 feet above sea level.
It is obvious that if the priest was going down the road, he was coming from Jerusalem.
What do you think he had been doing in Jerusalem?
I am certain that he had not been to Walmart.
Do you think he had just been at the temple?
After all, he was a priest wasn’t he? Do you think if he had, he had just recited this Hebrew shema?
In other words, he know that he should love his neighbor as himself, right?
It just goes to show that one can live so easily and so pleasantly and even be called a priest, if you just carefully pass on the other side of the road.
The priest had no intention.
Next, Jesus speaks of the Levite coming to the place, saw him, and passed on the other side.
A Levite was like an “assistant priest” if you will.
Like the priest, the Levite had been bound by his profession to help this man.
Priests and their assistants are chosen by God to speak for God.
This means that they are tender-hearted, gentle, kind, and full of sympathy.
The Levite came and looked.
He may have meant, “I will look into it,” but those thoughts did not become action.
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