Luke 16: 19-31

Holley

Wednesday November 30^th 2011

In this parable there was a rich man who lived in luxury and he dressed in fine, purple linen. There was also a poor beggar named Lazarus that kept faith in eating the bits of food that fell off the rich mans table. When Lazarus died he was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. When the rich man died he was in flames and needed Lazarus to help him. It turns out that when Lazarus needed food, the rich man let him die. So when the rich man needed him, he wasn't there to help him in his agony.

I think the moral of the story is to love others as you would love yourself. When Lazarus was in need the rich man didn't help him at all and left him to die from no food. But when the rich man was in need of Lazarus, he wasn't there to put him into comfort. If you're going to put others to suffer, you're eventually going to suffer too. What goes around comes around so you should care about others. One day that "no body beggar" is going to be bigger. Life gets better. It got better for Lazarus.