PLEASE HELP

"Rescue the perishing; don’t hesitate to step in and help. If you say,

“Hey, that’s none of my business,” will that get you off the hook?
Someone is watching you closely, you know— Someone not impressed with
weak excuses" (Proverbs 24:11-12, The Message).
We all know how to come up with excuses why we are not lending a
helping hand to a friend or neighbour in need. Sometimes we claim that
we are crippled by insufficient resources. At other times, we talk of
how busy we are and blame the time for chocking away kindness from our
heart. Again we might come up with the excuse of how undeserving of
our help the fellow in need is. And the list goes on. But you know,
God is never impressed with all those excuses. As far as God is
concerned, most of our excuses are either lame or barren most of the
time.
First, if you are waiting until you have sufficient resources before
you lend a helping hand, you may have to wait forever because
resources would never be enough for anyone who is alive and well. The
more resources you have, the more needs you will have to meet. When
you did not have a car, you complained of how insufficient your income
is and that you are not in a financial position to help others. Now
that you have a car, you are still saying you are not in a financial
position to help others and your excuse is that you have got things to
fix in your car. When you own a jet, you will still not be in a
financial position to help others because, then your excuse will be
that it is not easy to maintain a jet.
So where does that leave us? Now is the time to help others with what
you have. As I always say, when you have nothing, and that nothing of
yours feeds you, pays your house rent, maintains your children in
school, puts gas in your automobile, and does many other things, that
'nothing' is powerful and adequate enough to make you of a little
blessing to your neighbour in need. Someone might say, "I only manage
to survive", and I will say, "Go ahead, manage to bea blessing to
someone else also".
To those who think certain people do not deserve their help (we all
think so sometimes, don't we?), my response is that God has got enough
reasons not to bless us as well, but He keeps showering His blessings
upon us. The Bible says He gives his best - the sun to warm and the
rain to nourish - to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice
and nasty, the righteous and the wicked. We all are called to live
that God-kind of life, showing mercy and kindness even to the
undeserving.
May the good Lord help us all and give us the faith and wisdom to do
the good we can while it is still day.
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