Sound of Surviving Blog

So many times, I feel like we only meet people in our own area. We don’t go out of our way to meet or help people further down the road from us. We are content to stay in our little area and not to reach out to those unfamiliar to us. We are sometimes too scared or freaked out by what others are going through because it feels too uncomfortable or too unknown to us.

So instead of helping those going through those illnesses, trauma, relationship issues, etcetera, we concern ourselves with those who are in closer proximity to our own lives and our issues. We are too afraid that we might say or do the wrong thing while trying to help, so we just don’t help at all. We figure, “Other people will help them, so I don’t really have to”. But what if we think that, most likely, other people are thinking the same thing too.

Everyone has their own set of problems and struggles in life. We might not be able to relate to what others are going through, but that doesn’t mean we can’t pray for them. We are called to cast our cares onto God. “We can’t always help everyone, it’s too much weight for us to carry”, we think to ourselves. But if we are lifting the needs of others to the God of the universe, who hears us always; we’re giving him our burdens and worries.

There’s a quote from Max Lucado, that speaks to this, “Rather than assuming we can do nothing to help others, we should assume the posture of prayer”. In Matthew 5:14-16 doesn’t tell us to be a light just to those who are near us or whom we’re comfortable with, it commands us to be a light to the whole house, or in other words, the whole world. So let your light shine for all to see.