And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
	Luke 10:35
After carrying the beat-up traveler into the inn, the Samaritan said to the innkeeper, ‘Here’s money to take care of this man. If you need more, I’ll repay you when I return.’ This puts the innkeeper in an interesting place. Two pieces of silver being a significant amount of money in that day, if he figured the Samaritan was not likely to return, he could dump the traveler on the street and use the silver to remodel his inn. That’s what a lot of us do. We’ve been blessed by the Lord with money, jobs, resources, abilities, and talents. And what do we do with them? Use them for our own gain. Or the innkeeper could have said, ‘I’ll take care of him until the two pence run out. Then, whether he’s healed or not, he’s out of here.’ A lot of us do this as well. ‘We’ll use what You give us, Lord,’ we say, ‘but don’t ask us to extend ourselves in faith. We’re not going to take on any new challenge or step into any new opportunity. We’ll give what You require, but once that’s given, that’s it because we’re not completely sure You’re coming back or that we’ll be repaid.’ I have news for you: Jesus is coming back. And, based upon the Word of God, I promise you that anything you have spent above and beyond the two pence you have been given will be rewarded greatly. Not once in the next billion years to come will you regret that which you did not do for yourself because you cared for someone who was beat up, someone who was in need, someone who needed to grow in the ways of the Lord. What we will regret is that which we did not spend because we weren’t living as though the Samaritan was really coming back. The Lord has entrusted to you more than enough to take care of the half-dead people who come our way. The question is, will you release what He’s given you? Will you let it go? Will you make the time? Will you expend the energy? Fellow innkeepers, I trust you will say to our Good Samaritan, ‘You’ve already given me the gifts and the goods to care for whoever You send my way. Therefore, I will do whatever it takes, knowing You are repaying even now.’