Helpless

Neighbor

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:2 · World English Bible

You may not be able to move a war. You can take a corner of a burden that is near. Helplessness often shrinks the field until even that looks pointless. It is not.

What burden within arm’s reach have you been calling too small to count?

Hope

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Romans 8:22–25 · World English Bible

We wait. Waiting is not the same as doing nothing, and it is not the same as despair. Patience is named because the groaning is real.

If you stopped demanding to feel useful, what faithful small thing would still be in front of you?