9.27-Are you weak and needing help or are you strong and able to help?

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Which part of society are you in right now?  Are you strong and healthy?  Can you give some help to the elderly and the lame?  Good.

Are you older and need some help?  There is a blessing even in this.

Some will be the organizers of benevolent giving and charity and some will be the givers and some will be receivers from time to time.  All have a part to play.  Those who feel they aren’t the popular ones should not feel they don’t belong because they do.  Those who feel that they are not the most presentable and beautiful and strong should not feel they don’t belong.  

Sometimes the weakest members of a group of people give the other people are mission and a reason to live and be inspired.   It is more blessed to be able to give than receive.  We pray for healing and sometimes we are healed without intervention by doctors and nurses.  Often it takes the help of surgeries and such.  

Most would rather be healthy and strong and giving help rather than receiving it.  Still, it is a blessing to receive help when we need it.  For many years I have enjoyed opening doors for lame, slow walking older people.  It made me feel useful and grateful that I could.  Now I am in a different situation.  People open doors for me as an older, slow, lame walking person.  That is a blessing also.

1 Corinthians 12.

¹² Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. ¹³ For we were all baptized by^[c] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. ¹⁴ Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
¹⁵ Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. ¹⁶ And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? ¹⁸ But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. ¹⁹ If they were all one part, where would the body be? ²⁰ As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
²¹ The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” ²² On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, ²³ and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, ²⁴ while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, ²⁵ so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. ²⁶ If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
Larry Wishard