October 12, 2006

[Rev. Doc]

Touching The Lives Of Others

"Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing."
I Thessalonians 5:11

The article "What Good Is a Tree?" in Reader’s Digest explained that when the roots of trees touch, there is a substance present that reduces competition. In fact, this unknown fungus helps link roots of different trees--even of dissimilar species. A whole forest may be linked together. If one tree has access to water, another to nutrients, and a third to sunlight, the trees have the means to share with one another. Like trees in a forest, Christians in the church need and support one another.

Prayer: Ask the Lord to make you conscious of lives around you that need a touch of love.

"Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord."
~John Baillie