| Spiritual useful services: love toward God and love for the neighbor | Moral and civic services: love for the society in which a person resides | Natural useful services: love of the world and its necessities | Corporal useful service: self- preservation for the sake of higher uses | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| For I was hungry and you gave Me food | Longing for the love from the Lord | Longing to be in a loving family, job or position in society | Longing for a healthy world and enough material possessions | Hungry for healthy food |
| I was thirsty and you gave Me drink | Longing for truth from the Lord | Longing for understanding about people and jobs | Longing for accurate facts and worldly information | Hungry for healthy liquids |
| I was a sojourner and you took Me in | Eager to learn how to be included in a heavenly community | Eager to learn how to join a church, club or social group | Eager to feel closer to the natural world and to be taught about objects | Eager to be welcomed into a house and taught family customs |
| I was naked and you clothed Me | Ignorant of good and truth; long for protection from evil and falsity | Vulnerable to bad social influences, such as abuse, oppression, violent crime | Vulnerable to bad influences in the natural world; poison, pollution, drugs | Vulnerable to harsh climate and wanting protective clothing |
| I was sick and you visited Me | Acknowledge that they have nothing good: sick from evil | Mental illness related to social issues: loneliness, lust, cruelty, depression | Mental illness related to love of objects or the world, or greed, envy, materialism | Physical illness; seeking medical care and visits; may or may not be guilty |
| I was in prison and you came to Me | Acknowledge that they have no truth: stuck in falsities | Mental illness related to fear and distortions of reality about people | Mental illness related to false ideas of the physical world | Literally in a prison; wanting to be visited; may or may not be guilty |
