They, too, will ask,
‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, thirsty,
naked or a stranger, sick or in prison,
and did not help you?’
The king will answer them,
‘Truly I say to you:
just as you did not do it for one of the least of these,
you did not do it for me.’
And these will go into eternal punishment;
but the just, to eternal life.”
---- mine,
It is good to be vigilant, to keep your ears and eyes open to those in need. Do not close your heart and allow the ugliness of the world to dictate how you ought to feel toward those less fortunate than yourself. Too many are left unheard, unattended, and ignored because the cynicism of the world has penetrated hearts that ought to be like Mine. Pray constantly, allowing the Holy Spirit to direct your ways, speak to your heart, and guide you. Remember that the least kindness shown to those whom the world rejects and despises, marginalizes and shoves out of sight, I will consider as done to Me. And when you stand before Me to be judged, you will have to give a strict account of how you treated those whom I sent into your life to witness to Me and to My love. Seek Me in those that you would rather not see because it would cost too much. Overcome your fears, your prejudices, your natural human instinct that flinches from the reality of the poverty, suffering, and the degradation of those abandoned by the selfish cruelty and deliberate blindness of those who callously refuse to get involved. Whatever you do or do not do to the least of My little ones, is done to Me. Pray for the grace to always look for Me and find Me in everyone you encounter each day and minister to Me in them.
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