How do we care for all the needs around us? The needs of people can be overwhelming to grasp. As the flight attendant says place the mask first on yourself and then your child makes sense...so does Paul's teaching. God cares for us and we in turn can care for others...who then begin another cycle in caring for others. (exponential in nature) As we are connected with God there is a way to care for the needs of the world around us. To care properly we must have our needs attended by God and others. Paul writes about it this way...
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort."
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