HELPFULNESS
Whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. 1 Cor. 12:26.
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Every member, in proportion as it is in harmony with the Head and his spirit of love for the members, will be prompt to act. Sometimes in our human bodies the hand may stretch forth assistance to the injured member so quickly that it seems impossible to conceive that the message first went to the head, and that our hand was subsequently directed by the head to assist; and so it is with the members of the Body of Christ. Those Who are in full touch and sympathy with the Head, the Lord, are to so large an extent of "one spirit" with him, so anxious to do his will, and so well informed with respect to what his will is, that they sometimes seem to act almost automatically, in respect to rendering help by word or deed, or otherwise, to those with whom they are in contact. Z. '02-103.