Succor

I am reading in Mosiah 4:14-27. These verses discuss at length the need for each of us to help eachother. Verse 16 says " Ye...will succor those that stand in need of succor". Yesterday I was in Ward Council and we were discussing the needs of many of the members of the ward and what the ward or ward council could do to help. I had a thought that stood out to me. It became very clear to me that we were not individual people who were sent here to live individual lives moving in parallel with eachother. Our purpose is to connect with eachother to interact with eachother and to help eachother. It would be very simple for us to just live our lives in the path that we had desires to go, taking care of our own needs and giving very little thought for those around us but we would be missing a great opportunity to help and love those around us. It is as if the Lord has said help those in near you who need your assistance. Take of the blessings that I have given to you and give to those around you, in fact, I have not given you extra that you might hold on to it for yourself but that you might help those in need. Any blessing from the Lord is either to take care of a need you have or so that you might take care of a need another person may have. It is the Lords work and his glory to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man and the reason that he bless us is that we might help him in this work.