The Titan submersible left with several paying customers aboard. Some 250 thousand dollars for the expedition of the Titanic wreckage. The vessel and the souls aboard were lost several days ago.
When it was announced that contact had been lost with the Titan, immediately some very hard-hearted jokes started coming across social media. The most sarcastic among them even made it a game, to see how much they could post about the situation.
The announcement of the crew being lost didn't deter these people.
Five souls, including the company founder.
At some point, we must erase the dividing line between rich and poor, erase the bonds of contempt, and reach out, not in poverty or wealth, but in a common humanity. The believer after all, is reach spiritually, with "God's riches awaiting in glory".
One of the victims was teenager who had expressed some misgivings about the trip, and if no one else, let us think of him, and let that be the touchstone of our common humanity, our shared burden.
If we were so hard-hearted about those people, how could we reach out to the hardened sinners of the world in order to the further the Gospel? Could we condescend even to spare a kind word to anyone, or turn the other cheek in the face of various assaults and indignities?
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