Matthew 25

Are you taking care of others? Are you looking for people in need and trying to bridge the gap to meet their needs?

At the end of this chapter, Jesus wasn't just talking about meeting physical needs. Although it is important for us to do that, it is not the most important need for us to meet. We forget sometimes that meeting physical needs is often the first step in being able to help address the more pressing spiritual needs of humanity. Our society, and our churches by extension, has come to rely too heavily on the government to provide for the people in need that we tend to overlook them as we go about our worship surrounded by others that are just as well off as ourselves.

Meeting physical needs builds relationships and building relationships leads to the ability to meet the spiritual needs that Christ is also talking about in this passage. Have you fed someone with the meat of the Word? Have you given someone a drink of the milk of the Word? Have you invited someone to join you as a brother in Christ? Have you helped to clothe someone in the Armor of God? Have you walked alongside someone hurting with sin? Or have you shown the way to be free from the prison of sin?