Service | Loneliness | Self-centeredness

“Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?” (Heb. 1:14).

Psychologist Alfred Adler once put an ad in the paper for his “Fourteen-Day Cure Plan.” He claimed that he could cure anyone of any emotional or mental disorder in just fourteen days. One day, an extremely lonely woman came to him for advice. He told her that if she would do as he said, she would be cured of her loneliness in a mere fourteen days. “What do you want me to do?” she asked. Adler replied, “If you will do something for someone else every day for fourteen days, your loneliness will be gone.” The woman objected: “Why should I do anything for someone else?” To which the psychologist replied, tongue-in-cheek, “Well, in your case, it may take twenty-one days.”