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Romans 15-16

Romans 16:13

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; also his mother, who has been a mother to me as well. 

Here we come to the end of the book of Romans. Paul mentions some different people by name. Some we know well and others we do not know. One person that is mentioned is Rufus. Many people believe that this is the same person who carried the cross of Jesus.

Mark 15:21

And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.

Most likely Rufus mother would have heard, either from Simon, Alexander or from Rufus, about who Jesus was. However, that is not what I want to focus on. I want to focus on how Rufus mother treated Paul. This speaks of her hospitality and how caring she was towards Paul. This simple question that we can pull from this is, how do we treat others? Rufus’s mother had such a tremendous impact on Paul that he says that she was like a mother to him. How do you treat other people?

Mark 12:30-31 says,

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Tony

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