The rich and Lazarus

Today we meet again beggars. Looking at them we have mixed feelings. Perhaps we ask: should we really help them? Aren’t they beggars just because they don’t want to do it? Aren’t they even richer than us? Isn’t it the duty of the state or charity to take care of them? And what would Jesus do in our place? Jesus told us today a parable of Lazarus, who was a real beggar. And a rich man who was a real rich man. Perhaps we would not understand much of the Gospel today if we thought that his most important idea was the afterlife. The reward and punishment in eternity is the result of behavior in earthly life. Therefore, the most important idea of ​​the Gospel is the situation of Lazarus and the rich and their relationship. At the same time, the dogs also gained a significant position.

Jesus tells of the rich man that he dressed in expensive clothes and feasted great every day. Jesus doesn’t blame him for being dressed and eating. He regrets that he wore an unnecessarily expensive dress and over-eaten. The lager was in a completely opposite position. He was a social heir because he had ulcers. He was mentally destroyed because he had no other desires, only the desire to feed himself from the pieces that fell from the rich table. And as much as Jesus wails the rich, his greed and the hardness of his heart were. Therefore, in the parable of Jesus, although it sounds paradoxical, there are more human dogs than man. Thus, between Lazarus and the rich, there was not only a great abyss in eternity, but also on earth, even if they were only a few meters apart.