Love Your Neighbor
Lamentations 1:1-3 & Luke 17:5-6
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Lamentations 1:1-3 (NRSV):
1 How lonely sits the city
that once was full of people!
How like a widow she has become,
she that was great among the nations!
She that was a princess among the provinces
has become subject to forced labor.
2 She weeps bitterly in the night,
with tears on her cheeks;
among all her lovers,
she has no one to comfort her;
all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
they have become her enemies.
3 Judah has gone into exile with suffering
and hard servitude;
she lives now among the nations;
she finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
in the midst of her distress.
Luke 17:5-6 (NRSV):
5 The apostles said to Jesus “Increase our faith!” 6 Jesus replied, “If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
Queries:
What can Love do?
Why and where is lament needed? Why and where is faith needed?
Who are our neighbors? What do they need?
What can we do, together, in response to the needs of our neighbors?