Isaiah 58:9-14 / Luke 5:27-32
God speaks: “Help others and I will help you.”
A woman named Linda was in a state mental hospital. She
said she was without hope for the future and without faith in God. Then one day
she happened to notice a small sign: “Volunteers needed to help the elderly.” She
says she doesn’t know why she responded to that sign, but she did. Several
months later she wrote about her experience, “Each day spent with these elderly
patients awakened something within me.” Linda’s experience with the elderly
patients restored not only her faith in the future but also her faith in God.