I doubt that you and I will ever
face the situation Abram faced, but we do face situations everyday that calls
for our involvement, and we often stand by and do nothing while others are
mistreated.
When Rosina Hernandez was in
college, she once attended a concert at which one young man was brutally beaten
by another.
No one made an attempt to stop the
beating. The next day she was struck
dumb to learn that the youth had died as a result of the pounding. Yet neither she nor anyone else had raised a
hand to help him.
She could never forget the
incident or her responsibility as an inactive bystander.
Some years later, Rosina saw
another catastrophe. A car driving in
the rain ahead of her suddenly skidded and plunged into
This time Rosina waited for no
one. She plunged into the water, tried
unsuccessfully to open the car door, then pounded on the back window as other
bystanders stood on the causeway and watched.
She screamed at them, begging for help, telling them there was a man
dying in the car.
First one man, then another,
finally came to help. Together they
broke the safety glass and dragged the man out.
They were just in time – a few minutes later it would have been all
over.
✞ Get involved and do what you do so God gets the glory.
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