my brother’s keeper

“Am I my brother’s keeper?” (Genesis 4:9)


Yes, we are our brother’s keeper., We are responsible for one another. The Dali Lami is quoted saying: “And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”  It is a “Cainish Spirit” when one insulates from the concerns that go on around them and responds, “It is not my problem. Am I my brother’s keeper.”


What the Lord confirmed for Cain still applies today: “‘YES, YOU ARE!’ While we are not to judge our Christian brothers and sisters, because they answer to God and not to us (Romans 14:12), we are responsible for the way our conduct affects their lives.” Furthermore, we cannot unsee what we see or unknow what we know. We cannot stick our heads in the sand and pretend that reality is not happening around us. It is a Christian duty to respond with good, if nothing else, to pray, “To him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” (James 4:7) 


“We have all of us, especially those of us who are Christians, the power to do good to others. We have not all the same ability, for we have not all the same gifts, or the same position, but as the little maid that waited on Naaman’s wife had opportunity to tell of the prophet who could heal her master, so there is not a young Christian here but what has some power to do good to others…We have all some capacity for doing good.”


Whether we hear it in passing or witness something with our own eyes, let us stop what we are doing and, if we cannot do anything else, pray, pray, pray.


GiGi❤️