Obadiah forces us to examine how we respond to the needs of others. Are our lives marked by prideful self-interest, or self-sacrificial love and action? The Edomites are judged severely for failing to assist their brother and neighbor in his suffering; Jesus warns us that the same standard will apply to all people. How then do we become people who do not stand aloof from suffering, but joyfully choose self-sacrifice for the good of others? Only by remembering that a resurrected savior has walked that road before us. As we grow in Jesus, we will become like Him. And when we don't know what steps to take, we just need to ask.