Mark 9:41
For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ, will by no means lose his reward.
God, said George MacDonald, is easy to please, but hard to satisfy. There are few things easier than giving somebody a cup of water, yet such a gesture will gain you a heavenly reward, if you do it because somebody bears the name of Christ. On the other hand, those who bear the name of Christ are not always people we are especially interested in getting to know. How many of us have given water to the poor, the imprisoned, the despised, or the “popularly unpopular” (that is, anybody who our social circle would gasp to see us with). It is in this “distressing disguise” says Mother Teresa, that Jesus comes to us as well. Today, give a cup of water to somebody who bears the name of Christ. Tomorrow, do it again. But take the cup a little further on and give it to somebody who bears Christ’s name in difficult circumstances.
