When We Help Others . . .

¨         We provide a solution to a problem that may have seemed insurmountable to the one facing it.

¨         We build or reinforce a friendship.

¨         We open a door that may lead to our being helped in the future  (in our own time of weakness)—maybe even by the person we assist.

¨         We divide the sorrow of the burden that was bearing upon someone.

¨         We share the joy that comes from a burden being lifted.

¨         We build confidence in the one receiving help so that they may be able to meet other problems on their own.

¨         We take our attention away from our own problems that may be causing us  distress.

¨         We encourage the one helped to help others.

¨         We lessen our self-centeredness.

¨         We fulfill the will of God.

¨         We open a door for greater influence in the future.

¨         We set an example for others to follow.

¨         We remind ourselves that we too have been helped by someone in our past.

¨         We lessen the possibility of a tragedy.

¨         We may find the solution to our own problems, or at least be able to look at them differently.

¨         We allow the one helped to move forward.

¨         We restore hope in mankind.

¨         We make the world a better place.

¨         We walk in the footsteps of Jesus.

¨         We glorify God.

"As we therefore have opportunity, let us do good  unto all men . . ." (Galatians 6:10).  —Lance Cordle