getting what we Give … ( 07 / 20 / 2008 )
getting what we Give … ( 07 / 20 / 2008 )
To grow as a person psychologically , we must give ... And yet to grow as a Human Being -- to grow spiritually , we must Give selflessly .
Yes , it is true that Jesus is believed to have implied that we will be rewarded for our acts of giving , and yet it cannot be similarly implied that he desired those rewards to be our motivation for the same , and he most certainly did not say that said rewards would be material or monetary ... Indeed , the Jesus of the Gospels made it actually quite clear that they would be nothing of the sort .
For when we work for money , we receive money ... and when we work selfishly for " divine favor ", we receive a " salvation " most hollow -- from " gods " themselves selfish -- in return … And yet when we serve for nothing -- when we serve solely to bring others Peace & give them Love , then we receive everything worth receiving . For it is when we care not about money that we are wealthy beyond measure ; it is when our palms are empty yet open that they hold the most Joy ; and it is when we care not at all about paradise that we gain admittance into the Kingdom of Heaven .
Amen ... Let it be so . ( inspired by Dalton Roberts )
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