the end of Matthew's Gospel, a speech by Jesus is quoted to me again and again deeply moved and disturbed. Jesus says there to the meeting that he shall himself at the end of time all people of the world into two groups will, as a shepherd separates sheep from goats, and the "sheep" he would say. "Come, ye blessed of my Father! ... For I was hungry and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I had nothing to wear, and ye clothed me: I was . ill, and did you looked after me: I was in prison and you visited me "?. Then, the questions raised: When is was the" we can not recall the answer of Jesus: "I tell you: whatever you did for one of my brothers - and he would still have been taken so small, you did for me, "
Then he will turn to those on the other side -. in the parable the goats - and say, "Depart from me, ye cursed," and then mentioned in negative form, which they have not done him. The parties ask again: When should it be done? And the answer of Jesus: "I say to you: Whatever you have failed to do in one of my brothers - and he would still have been taken so small - that you have failed me over."
It is the culmination of charity par Excellence what puts this parable. And Jesus also points out that our Behavior toward the weakest on earth will have consequences to God. Are not these stark words? Yes, and at the same time - if there is a just God, he will demand that his creatures justice.
10:10:10 On Sunday the world are Christian churches with the "stop poverty-Sunday" think of the billion people living on our planet live in poverty. They have less than a dollar a day to live. The eschatological parable of Jesus in our time more challenging, because we experienced in a globalized and mobile world every day countless hardships from anywhere. How can we do justice to the claim of Jesus be? How can we meet all of necessity in the required way? Are we not simply overpowering, even when we want it?
God knows us. He has made us and knows our capabilities and limitations. He looks at the heart of the individual. And if we have taken in the heart of the decision that we do care as other people, for example in the Southern Hemisphere goes, we will deal with the needy and the weak fundamentally different. And it certainly is a help, if we take this to heart what Jesus says in this parable: If we help a man in his weakness, so it is as if we meet God. In this sense: Do not be a goat, but a sheep and listen to the voice of the shepherd, so you meet him in your neighbor!
published in daily paper Thun, Bernese Oberland of 9 October 2010
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