Last night my sister came over for the evening to hang out with me and my family. A few minutes after she left our house she calls on her cell phone to tell us about a car that was stopped at the intersection of Minton and Emerson. The driver was slumped over in his SUV. She didn't know what she should do. I advised my sister, being a woman, not to approach the car but to call 911. She did. I also jumped into my car since it was nearby to see if I could help.
Fire Rescue arrived just before I did. Luckily the man was ok. He either was drunk or had passed out or fallen asleep. My sister had told me that other cars had pulled up behind the stopped SUV and would honk and getting no response would just zip around the vehicle and drive off to the club, work or Wal-Mart.
If you pulled up behind a car, honked because the light was green, and there was no response, what would be your first assumption? ...I would think that it would be that something is wrong! Nope, the masses felt it was not their business and didn't want to bother with it. It would have inconvenienced them. It would be too risky. They would be late to the new club that opened up in Orlando. Who knows why, except they didn't care to stop and find out what was wrong and if anyone needed help.
This has the Good Samaritan story written all over it! Go here (Luke 10:25-37) if you don't know what I am talking about. The Bible also talks about the love of most growing cold. Where is the care for your fellow man? Well, I guess Darwinism has succeed to eliminate compassion and good will. It has produced a wonderful society of survival of the fittest. Beautiful!
Back in September 2004 after one of the hurricanes a neighbor of mine had fallen off his ladder and hit the cement ground near his pool. He was incoherent and barely conscious. Since the phone lines were down I had to jump into my van and drive to the fire station nearby. But as I turned the corner out of my neighborhood the van died. Earlier in the day I had run into some deep puddles and water was in the engine.
I jumped out of my van and started flagging down the first car I saw. I was standing mostly in the road waving. They zoomed around me and kept going. The next car came and this time I stood in the middle of the road and would you guess it they veered into the opposite lane and kept driving. I was furious.
This time when the next car came I made sure they couldn't go around me but they were already stopping. They told me there was a cop already in my neighborhood and we were able to get help.
The point of this is obvious. Maybe it is Americans, Floridians or maybe Palm Bay folks or just people in general but today there seems to be very little love or care about anything other than self. The first two cars were like the priest and the Levite that walked on by the man who had been beat up by robbers. The third car, like the good Samaritan, stopped and helped. Praise God that there are still good Samaritans...Almost.
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