'We like to think there is no sin
We like to think there is no sin in mere 'not doing'
Love always gives. If it will not give — then it is not love. It is measured always by what it will give.
The needs of other people are therefore Divine commands to us, which we dare not disregard or disobey.
To refuse to help a brother who stands before us in any kind of need, is as great a sin as to break one of the commandments of the Decalogue.
We like to think there is no sin in mere 'not doing' . But Jesus, in His wonderful picture of the Last Judgment, makes men's condemnation turn on not doing the things they ought to have done.
They have simply not fed the hungry, nor clothed the naked, nor visited the sick, nor blessed the prisoner.
"Then He will also say to those on the left hand, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.'
Then they will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?'
Then He will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these — you did not do it to Me.'
And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life!" Matthew 25:41-46