Those In Need

When you feel the most empty, give all that you can away; when times are the hardest for you, strive to make them easier for someone else. When you are hurting and in pain, comfort another. I believe God has set life up to work just in this way. Only by giving the medicine to another are we able to get it ourselves. Maybe when He sees us taking steps to help others and ignoring ourselves, then His nature is to move in and take care of us. The poor man who donates his last dollar never seems to run completely out of money. The survivor on a lifeboat who puts the others' needs ahead of his own always seems to be the one to survive. If we only do for ourselves, we are in essence telling Him, "Don't bother me- I don't have time for others. You'll have to take care of them. I'm too busy with myself"- at which point He agrees and moves on to help the ones who do need it- the ones too busy with those in need to ever think of themselves.