"But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil." -Luke 6:35
I am not sharing the experience in search for praise and attention, but I'm sharing the experience because it's something I struggle with so I'm sure others do to. If we were given those extra seconds to decide to give or not, I'm sure most of us would say no. And, to quote myself from my previous blog post:
i am walking onwards.
i refuse to become stagnant.
it is Christ who compels me to love and live.
to love until i have nothing left,
to live with my final breath.
to give of myself until the goblet is empty,
only to be overflowed by the purest of waters.
So really, I'm just taking the public opportunity to throw my own words back at myself and to keep myself accountable. We hear so often "Ask and you shall receive" but we forget that in receiving, someone else has to give. Jesus gave everything so we might receive life. He doesn't ask us to literally go up on a cross to die for someone else - but in a way, he does. He calls us to give of ourselves, out our selfish nature, against our culture, in accordance with his teachings and his character. If we are true followers of Jesus, we are not just absorbing his teachings from afar, but we are to engage with them on a real level - like unexpectedly giving someone $3.60 of metrofare.
4 comments:
good stuff.
:)
1) love how how you quoted yourself
2) little things count
3) take risks. how else to live? <3
You are so wise. Glad I was a witness to it. :)
symph, if i could like your comment, such as it is on facebook, i would. A-GREED.
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