Many of us have squandered opportunities to help others in need, not actively obeying God's laws which are inextricably linked to love. Our Lord and Savior, by sacrificing His life for ours, placed the bar higher by applying it to our enemies. Without the gift of God's Holy Spirit, it is impossible to understand the kind of love which Christ commanded of His disciples, blessed with eyes to see and ears to ear. When the lawyer responded to Jesus about the most important law (loving God intensely and our neighbor as ourselves), the understanding was that his agape must be continuous rather than sporadic. The anecdote about the Good Samaritan uncovered the deficit of love in the inquisitive lawyer, but it could have demonstrated the same lack of love we may currently have. It would be well for all of us to understand the plight of the victim on the side of the road, which describes all of us before our calling. As Christ demonstrated His love to us while we were enemies, clueless about His plan for us, we must extend mercy, kindness, and compassion to those who are just as clueless as we were before our calling.