Helpful

While shopping on Fifth Avenue in downtown Manhattan, Eleanor Bradley fell and broke her leg. Unable to move, she called for someone to be kind  enough to help her.  Many people walked around her, even stepped over her for forty minutes before someone stopped to help her!

 

Are you a helpful person?  I try to be, but sometimes I find myself being more annoyed than glad for opportunities to be helpful.  In his book,  The Jesus Touch, Lynn Anderson writes: "Helpfulness is the 'bread and butter' of the Christian virtues. It is to be 'standard equipment' on all models. Not all can preach. Few can lead. Not everyone is a musician or can counsel or teach. But ALL can be helpful. Anyone can roll up his or her pants legs and wade into the flood of day-to-day hassles and hurts of others. And to do this is to do what Jesus did; it is, in fact, to be like God! It is the Jesus touch."  Paul wrote, “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” (Galatians 6:9).  I understand some are in "help mode" all day every day, but imagine the opportunities to grow, helping in the Name of Christ.  Do you wonder how many different kinds of people failed to stop to help Eleanor?  Whatever kinds they were, may none of us be “that kind.” See how many times you can say it today … and, with a smile: "May I help you?"