To grow as a person psychologically, we must give …
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 can NOT be implied that he desired those rewards to be our motivation for the same, and he most certainly did not say that they would be material or monetary … Indeed, the Jesus of the Gospels made it actually quite clear that they would be nothing of the sort.

When we work for money, we receive money … and when we work selfishly for “divine favor”, we receive a “salvation” most hollow from selfish “gods” in return.

And yet when we serve for nothing — when we serve solely to bring others Peace & give them Love, then we receive absolutely everything.

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 Heaven.

Amen … Let it be so.

(inspired by Dalton Roberts)

Filed under: Wisdoms from the Journey by Scaughdt