The best thing we can do for others is not always to take their load or do their duty for them.
Of course we are to be helpful to others.

No aim should be put higher in our life-plans than that of personal helpfulness.

The motto of the true Christian cannot be other than that of the Master: "Not to be ministered unto, but to minister." Even in the ambition to gather and retain wealth, the spirit of the desire must be, if we are Christians at all, that thereby we may become more helpful to others; that through, or by means of, our wealth, we may be enabled to do larger and greater good.

Whatever gift, power, or possession we have that we do not seek to use in this way is not yet truly devoted to God.

Fruit is the test of character, and the purpose of fruit is not to adorn the tree or vine, but to feed hunger.