After Luke destroys the first Death Star and lands back on Yavin, R2D2 is pulled out of Luke’s X-Wing, and C3PO is horrified.
Speaking first to one of the technicians, C3PO pleads, “You must repair him!” He immediately turns to Luke and offers, “Sir, if any of my circuits or gears will help, I’ll gladly donate them.”
This scene shows the love that C3PO has for R2D2, regardless of their previous verbal sparring. It also shows the level of sacrifice that C3PO was willing to make to help his friend.
Throughout Scripture, we are told dozens of times that we are to help those in need and not just our friends.
In Galatians 6:2, Paul commands that we “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
Jesus tells His disciples in John 15:12, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
In Luke 6:38, we are told, “give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:42, “Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.”
Is it possible that we could be taken advantage of by people? Yes. It is possible, but we need to remember that we are but stewards of what God has given us.
If we try to honor God with the use of what He has given us, we will be a blessing to others. They will face judgment, as will we, at the end “so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil,” as it is written in 2 Corinthians 5:10.
Read what James wrote below to review what kind of faith we claim.
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. ~James 2:14-17
