At some point we all will need help from someone else, and someone else will need help from us. We have many opportunities to help other people in minor or major ways. I know I’ve had opportunities to help people. Part of what has made me want to help them is remembering the times when someone else helped me.
Most of the examples I can think of are being a stranded motorist. Sometimes I was the stranded motorist. I remember one time, I think I was on my way back home from Colorado. I was probably a good 5 hours away from home. My vehicle just died right as I pulled up to a stop sign. The amazing thing is that I didn’t have to wait long for help. The vehicle that pulled up right behind me offered to help. I was pretty thankful. I believe it was the alternator. They gave me a jump start and helped to get my vehicle going again. Not only that, but my vehicle died a couple of times on the way into town. They stayed with me and jumped my vehicle again until I made it into town. Without them helping me I never would have made it.
Anyway, this and other experiences has made me more willing to help other people when they have needed help. I guess it’s that empathy thing. I didn’t like being stranded myself and appreciated someone stopping to help me when that happened to me. Usually the people you run into are really appreciative. Well, they’re not appreciative if you actually run into them, but you know what I mean. But I suppose the more of a sacrifice it is for you, the more appreciative they are. They realize that you didn’t have to stop and give them your time and effort. There’s also the fact that it feels good to help someone else.
When we help other people we make this world a better place to live. We’re also making someone else’s journey a little easier. Even some of the smallest gestures can be a big deal to someone else. I think sometimes we’re afraid of getting over-invested in other people’s lives. I don’t think we should be. I can’t really think of a time when helping someone else ended up being a bad thing for me. Yeah, maybe it’s a risk. But if it is, it’s small. Life itself is a risk, isn’t it? I guess what I’m saying is that I can’t think of a time where I regretted helping someone. Of course, there are many ways we can be helpful. It doesn’t have to be a stranded motorist.
Here’s a good one for you to try. If you want to see your friends come up with all kinds of interesting excuses, let them know you’re moving and you need volunteers to help. Ah, the true test of friendship. Just kidding. Moving’s no fun, even if you’re doing it for yourself you don’t even want to do it. So, don’t be too hard on them.
In the story of the Good Samaritan Jesus talks about ‘Loving your neighbor as yourself’. A lawyer asks Him ‘who is his neighbor’. Jesus then tells him the story of the Good Samaritan. A man was left stripped and beaten along the side of the road. Two people, a priest and a Levite, pass by on the other side of the road. But one man, a Samaritan stops and helps this man. Jesus asks the man He’s telling the story, “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” The man answers, “The one who had mercy on him.” Jesus says, “Go and do likewise.” This is one of the Commandments of the Law that Jesus answered him with.
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Galatians 6:10 “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.” Also, Matthew 25:40: “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me.” These two verses are special admonitions, first from Paul in Galatians, and then from Jesus in Matthew, to be helpful to fellow believers. Jesus even says, that what we have done to ‘these His brethren’ we have done it unto Him. Certainly ample reason to be helpful to other believers. Even when we may be reluctant to help that specific person, we can do it out of our love for the Lord.
Finally in Matthew 5:16, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” So, whether strangers or fellow Christians, we are to show them Christ in us through our own benevolent actions. God will be honored, others will be blessed, and it’s one way we can put our faith into action.
Colossians 3:17 “And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.”
Galatians 6:10 “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”
Matthew 25:40: “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me.”
Matthew 5:16, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”