Leviticus 19:18  Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbour as yourself. I am the LORD.

Is it your business?                                         29 August 2010

In 1955, when the Southern US States were still highly segregated, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, visited relatives in Mississippi. After Emmett dared to talk to a white woman, two white men brutally murdered him. The two men were found not guilty by a jury comprising entirely of white males after deliberating for barely one hour. The two men later confessed to the crime in a Life magazine article.

Following the verdict, Emmetts mother said, “Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to Negroes in the South, I said, “Thats their business, not mine.” Now I know how wrong I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all.”

Making anothers concerns our own is what Leviticus 19:18 calls us to do: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” Jesus quotes this verse and interprets it as not placing any limitations on loving those around us. Our neighbour does not just mean someone close by,  it is anyone who has a need. We are to care for others as we care for ourselves.

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