“If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead.” 

Now two weeks into our Lenten journey, today’s Gospel reading has us hearing our Lord quote Abraham via parable. Jesus teaches us again that rejection of God, manifested by living the ‘good life’, in this transitory life here on Earth, without helping others through sharing our ‘good life’, has very real consequences.

“…[dressing] in purple garments and fine linen and [dining] sumptuously each day” is meaningless if, “lying at [our] door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from… [our] table,” and we didn’t care for him.

Prayer:
Loving Father, aided by sacrifices and discipline this Lenten season, please help me see more clearly that the path to eternal salvation is through faith in, and acceptance of, Your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. In following Your Son, continue to strengthen me to help those around me, especially those that I don’t find as easy or rewarding to help. 

Action:
I will offer help, support, and encouragement, to those I haven’t readily offered it to because it hasn’t been as convenient to do so, while praising God for understanding that while I’m still alive on Earth, that I can avoid being on the wrong side of that “chasm” for all eternity.