Elephant Helpers

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Late one night, a Kenyan elephant sanctuary received a call that an elephant calf had fallen into a well. The rescue team arrived to cries of despair flooding the darkness and discovered that two-thirds of the baby’s trunk had been lost to hyenas. Transporting the calf to their safe haven, they named him Long’uro, which means “something that has been cut.” Though he possessed only one-third of his trunk, Long’uro healed and was embraced by the rest of the herd at the sanctuary. Elephants innately know they need each other, so they help each other.

In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul underscores our need to help each other within the body of Christ. He uses the metaphor of the human body and its individual parts to describe how God intends His people to welcome all gifts in all people because all are needed for His body to function (vv. 12-26). Then Paul explains how unity in diversity is accomplished. “God has put the body together,” he wrote, “giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other” (vv. 24-25).

Whether weak or strong, fancy or common, let’s help each other. Like the elephants, people need each other too.

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0:00.0	There should be no division in the body, but its parts should have equal concern for each other.
0:06.1	1 Corinthians chapter 12, verse 25.
0:12.0	Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.
0:15.8	Elephant Helpers was written in red by Elisa Morgan.
0:21.2	1 Corinthians chapter 12 verses 21 through 26.
0:26.8	The eye cannot say to the hand, I don't need you.
0:30.7	And the head cannot say to the feet, I don't need you.
0:35.2	On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable.
0:40.9	And the parts that we think are less honorable, we treat with special honor. And the parts that
0:46.6	are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special
0:53.4	treatment.
0:59.6	But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it,
1:02.1	so that there should be no division in the body,
1:05.7	but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.
1:09.9	If one part suffers, every part suffers with it.
1:14.6	If one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
1:20.6	Elephant Helpers Late one night, a Kenyan Elephant Sanctuary received a call that an elephant calf had fallen into a well.
1:29.4	The rescue team arrived to cries of despair flooding the darkness and discovered that two-thirds
1:35.6	of the baby's trunk had been lost to hyenas.
1:40.6	Transporting the calf to their safe haven, they named him Longuro, which means something that has been cut.
1:48.8	Though he possessed only one-third of his trunk, Longuro healed and was embraced by the rest of the herd of the sanctuary.
1:57.4	Elephants innately know they need each other, so they help each other.
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