Today’s Thought “Schindler’s List” G. Ward

Galatians 5: ¹⁹ Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: sexual immorality, impurity, indecent behavior, ²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, ²¹ envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 

Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist, owning a factory and whereas he existed at the time of the Holocaust, he’d grow weary in witnessing the Nazi party’s effort to annihilate Jews by relegating them to concentration camps (a profoundly difficult and tortuous encampment, that awaited being placed in gaseous furnaces), compassion would rise from one so unsuspecting. Schindler was himself a Nazi, but would realize these Jews deserved life as he had and would construct a list of over 1,200 Jewish employees to be spared from imminent death at Auschwitz by bribing officials.

While great humanitarianism should be celebrated, our efforts as lights in a dark world (Ps.119:105) can point some to the path where true life begins, even snatching some out of the fire (Jude 1:23); but to think and act on our own volition (particularly as believers in Christ) is without eternal implications. In other terms, to rescue unto more earthen reality may appear good, until it’s weighed against eternal security in Christ. So, to be effectual onto the greater actuality, we’ll need the Holy Spirit’s lead (*Gal.5:16-17). Walk Accordingly.