Through Christian caring we can learn of the bond of man's oneness with God that joins all of us to one another. Therefore, through Christian caring, we can glorify God.
We say we care about a lot of things, but have you noticed that in practice, much of our caring is about ourselves—our home, our possessions, our job, our career? How much actual caring goes out to help meet our neighbor's needs or to aid the stranger who crosses our path? Do we recognize the needs of all mankind and care enough to lend a helping and healing hand, or do we pass by, saying, "I'm too busy with my own affairs to get involved"? What if Christ Jesus had felt this way when the blind man stood before him or the lepers needed to be cleansed? See Mark 8:22–26; Luke 17:11–19.
For Jesus, this would have been unthinkable, for he was—and is—the consummate example of true Christian caring, not only for his own generation, but for all those to come. With tender solicitude for unenlightened and suffering humanity, he moved among the multitudes, teaching the way of the kingdom of God, the kingdom of Spirit. He opened the blind eyes, cleansed the lepers, restored mobility to the lame, and raised the dead. One might say this great spiritual power was his because he was the Son of God, born of a virgin mother. Another might say it was because he had such great spiritual understanding.
