Latter Day Sinner

A friend challenged me to see Christ in the immigrant. There is good Biblical sense in that. “For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in” (Mt 25:35 KJV). But mostly I just see Lamanites. The Lamanites were mostly lawless and bloodthirsty. Some of them converted to a more ordered life. Some even buried their weapons of war and chose to die at the hands of their former brethren rather than fight back. The perspective that I think gets lost in Biblical Christianity is that the stranger needs to repent of his lawlessness and warfare to be welcomed. When I think of immigrants I think of Lamanites and that most of them are unrepentant. But I’ve got my own repentance to worry about so I leave them in the hands of the gods not mine.