Ronald Davis: A Human Being

          In this video, Ronald Davis talks about how hard it is to be poor and survive each day. He does not enjoy having to shake his cup around the streets every day so that he can get some money but he has no choice because no place will give him a job. He later says that he got upset when a person came up to him and told him to get a job and stop being a bum. Davis was very upset by this and replied that he is not a bum; rather he is a human being and we are all equal. Davis said my God bless his soul, and the man came back later apologetic and said that he had been having a bad day and gave Davis thirty dollars.
          God created all human beings equal, and he loves all of us equally as well. Since we are all created by God in the image of God and created out of love, we all share in a common communion. We are like a body, and Christ the King is the head. When we hurt someone else, that body is injured and everyone suffers from the injury, whether it is minor or severe. When Davis was called a bum, he was very hurt, and I'm sure the viewers felt very sorry for him as well as I did. When we make a mistake or hurt someone in the communion (which is like hurting ourselves because we are the same body), we feel terrible afterwards, and that is why the man later came back and apologized to Davis. We are supposed to obey the Ten Commandments in order to live a holy and good life, but as long as we follow the new Commandment of Love, we obey all the commandments and can live a great life. This commandment is to love one another as Christ loves us. Christ, who is God, is all loving and forgiving, and though we can never be perfect (which Christ is), we can set our goals to be perfection and aim at getting closer and closer to those goals each day. Going back to the Davis issue, whenever someone is h
urt, the person who gave the hurting must both apologize and do something else in order to somewhat repair the rift between the two people that was formed after one of the persons had been hurt. The man who hurt Davis apologized and gave him thirty dollars, while furthermore saying he had been having a really bad day and did not mean what he said. As a Christian, this part is crucial whenever we sin (which is inevitable) and shows that we are sinners but we desire to live a Christlike life and be one body with no injuries whatsoever.