DO YOU STILL HAVE A NEIGHBOUR?

Why was the law given, is it worth our time to  consider what the Bible teaches, is the bible still relevant for this age, what is life like  in Africa, America, Europe, and Asia? What line of best fit can describe the daily human behaviour in these continents? Is there still a need for man to review his life, and listen to his conscience or should we be at the mercy of the technological pace of the age? We will ever remain grateful to all who had contributed to the advancement of the human race. We understand the times and bless providence for it. But just few miles from the dawn of the century, man seem not to understand were the planet is heading.
For maturity, some maintain an unrealistic silence burdened under the aberrant. On the tail of the coin is the majority that won’t keep calm. They are responsible for the noise rage in the planet. Things are happening too fast beyond their grasp. You could sense the howling frustration in their head. The point of Eldorado is projected to be in some scheme, and here is the rat race, ‘what a stampede’! No one considers the weak nor the poor – the man with limited resource. The slogan is ‘the action is justify by the result’. 
Such loudness of the cry for satisfaction, leaves the mind no calmness to listen to the inner voice. He ignores his conscience to get his way through. He is desperate, frustrated, brutal, cunning, impenitent, inconsiderate, insatiable and helpless: the man of the 21st century. We can extrapolate to nations, tribes, and continents. They all bear the plate; ‘why should I care’? Government and nations need nuclear power, why is this so? This draws our urgency and endearing thought to the plight of the age – it devolves.
Means, schemes, and philosophy are employed to deaden and annihilate his conscience and the consciousness of a creator. If there is a creator what do think he has in mind for the peregrinating sojourner on this planet?
    
“When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of your fields, and do not pick up what the harvesters drop. 10 It is the same with your grape crop—do not strip every last bunch of grapes from the vines, and do not pick up the grapes that fall to the ground. Leave them for the poor and the foreigners living among you. I am the LORD your God”. (Leviticus 19:9-10)

A little consideration shows that the poor and the rich will always be among us, even strangers. At one point or the other we fall in any category. He that is poor in one is rich in another and vice versa. The poor, weak, and less privileged are part of the society as test-tools to God’s commandment.  The individual and society’s design extirpates communal life style and enthrones individualism at every level. In his book disciplines of a godly man by Kent Hughes, he wrote: “Long gone are the days when homes all had large front porches, with easy access to the front door, enabling one to become quickly acquainted with others in the neighbourhood…Today’s home boast smaller yards and an increasing incidence of high fences. 
The old adage that ‘a man’s house is his castle’ is coming true today. His castle’s moat is his front lawn, the drawbridge his driveway, and the portcullis his automatic garage door through which he passes with electronic heraldry. Once inside, he removes his armour and attends to house and hearth until day break, when he resumes his executive armament and, briefcase in his hand, mounts his steed – perhaps a Bronco or a Mustang – presses the button, and rides off to the wars.
Today’s homes reflect our modern values of individualism, isolation, and privatization”
He further said “it is no longer unusual to not even know the families immediately surrounding one’s own house…We lack roots, continuity, and community”.
Pre-colonial Africa was decorated with her socio-communal fragrance of rural hearth; only to be abandon and labelled as a pagan practice to the delight of the western critics and culture.
What is significant to the man of today? That is the sixty-four thousand dollar question we should be asking ourselves. Do you have a neighbour, if you do, do you care they exist, can you use your skills to serve and improve others without expecting any reward, can you go out of your busy schedule to create time for others or are you jam with the work and career thing?  There is a clarion call to return to the iconic demonstration of Christ love and the golden command to love your neighbour as yourself. Let’s get close to feel the weight of the breath of those around us, hear their heart beat, feel their fears and look upon their pains with a compassionate heart. Do the ‘preferring one another’ thing. Don’t slam the door against those who wants to have an inner view of your room – give others the opportunity to know you. It’s beyond just rapping some stuff to some kid across the street. Give to the society and expect nuffin in return. Work hard not for yourself but for the good of mankind. When the field is white don’t waste and glean everything, let go some grains for the impecunious. Keep in constant remembrance that your actions must impact at least one out of the eight billion people in the world. More can’t be said, do remember that the call of a man is to a people – L.P Kiisi