"Why do ye....notice them not?"

Beggar from the group of Saint Elisabeth. Sculpture by Rudolf Moroder, polychromed by Christian Delago

In the closing chapters of the Book of Mormon,  Moroni is talking to believers in our day and pleading with us to take a look at ourselves and our circumstances.  He poses this very pointed question:

 " Why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life, and yet suffer the hungry, and the needy, and the naked, and the sick and the afflicted to pass by you, and notice them not?"

Each time I read that verse it gives me definite pause.  I wonder how I and each of us will answer that question when we met Moroni before the "pleasing bar of the great Jehovah."  

Ref: Mormon 8:39  and Moroni 10:34