“You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 22: 37 - 39).
Who is your neighbor? How do you love him?
"You shall not oppress or afflict a resident alien, for you were once aliens residing in the land of Egypt. You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely listen to their cry. My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans." (Exodus 22: 20 - 23).
Why did God bless America more than other nations. Certainly not because we are the most hard working or honest. It is because our forebears who never forgot they were immigrants opened their hearts to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
God is good and powerful enough to create a world without the necessity for migrations. But for His own mysterious purposes, He created a world where like the poor, the migrants will always be with us whether we like it or not.
Migrants in the Bible:
Mary, Joseph and Jesus.
Abraham and Jacob.
David
All the 12 Apostles.
Without the possibility of migration, the Church would have died in infancy when Rome destroyed Jerusalem completely in 70 AD.
"This I command you: Love one another." (John 15: 17).
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