The Sacrifice in Receiving!

The Sacrifice in Receiving! It is more blessed to give than to receive. Man is a very complex being. I'm sure God deliberately made him so partly for His humor and personal excitement. Man is so complex to his own hurt, he is so complex that though he understands so much around him, he hardly can figure out who he is. Yet, in his conceit believes he is ever on top of all situations, not minding the obvious inability to conquer himself as he conquers the universe. The complexity of man blinds him to self consciousness and the subsequent self unconsciousness projects his weaknesses which he flaunts in pride. Such is the issue of giving. To man, selfishness is a key to survival. The philosophy of the survival of the fittest bothers on self preservation and propagation through as much as you can get from scarce resources. Man believes resources are scarce and so would still be gathering even when he has gotten more than enough and so deprive others of what God has provided them through nature. He doesn't see it as deprivation though. He sees it as a means of self perpetuation due to his fear of the unknown future. The more he can store up from the reach of others the more he believes he can survive. He believes out of his fears that his survival and perpetuation depend on himself even if he still finds it difficult to understand how he finds himself on the earth. He didn't create himself yet he can't leave his preservation to the Forces that brought him to being. So he gathers and keep gathering of the scarce resources with all the opportunities and strength he has, he works for no other, his gatherings are powered by the cravings of his appetite and fear. And whatever he gathers he protects against all odds with his life. He doesn't mind losing soldiers, young men and women of his own loins even the unborn to preserve what he has. He won't mind using religion and whatever sentiments to be in charge of world resources through self-justified violence in order protect what he has gathered and is still gathering. Of the uncountable stored up oil and grains not a drop or a grain must fall to the hands of another man...it would be better if it even falls to the birds to eat than for another man to use. But he doesn't mind trading with the excess to fuel other appetites of his. He uses what excess he has to gain control and significance. He can even permit his body to be burnt just to fuel other appetites of his. The only thing He won't willingly do is die for others though he daily urges those in his control to die for him. But he won't mind trading what else he has to gain control of others and of whatever things those ones have. Trading most times are covered over in the packaging of benevolence. It has to, in order to have access to more important things in the life of the recipients. World exchange of aids has become the international routes for modern-day slave trade and neo colonisation. You wonder why the powers that be would keep prices of their imported commodities at the very lowest only to give aids back to the impoverished farmers who produce the commodities. Why not just pay more for the oil and cocoa instead of giving aids? Mostly, therefore it isn't the one who gives the material things that suffers, it is the receiver who is pained. Yet the pain is hard to define because what is lost is more than meet the eye. That's why it is more blessed to give than to receive. That is why in divine jurisdiction giving doesn't bring spiritual profit no matter how religiously it is covered, even if it is with burnt body, except it is done in love. Solomon said, when the rich's excess is brought before you, put a knife to your own neck if you are one given to appetite, for he tells you eat and drink yet his heart is not with you, for as he thinks in his heart so is he and not as generous his presentation looks. When we have Christ in us and leave carnality behind, we walk less as mere men described above, we walk as God would and profit from our giving in love. We give in simplicity and are more concern with what good others do to us than remaining attached to what we said we have done for others. We separate trading from giving, motivated by the needs of others of whatever opportunities we have gotten from God, not motivated by our self preservation or fear of the future unknown but by purity of conscience and sincerity of purpose with all cleaness of empathetic thoughts and of good and large heart of generousity without guile. This that I've described of giving in love comes only from a heart atuned to God and His Christ by faith in the possibility of such. It helps to receive from men without fear of being traded in and helps to give without looking back so long needs are met by that which has been done even if the recipients have no opportunities of saying thanks audibly! Make it less painful for people to receive what God has sent through you, then you have rewards from the Universal giver, God and not from the often powerless recipients. Good morning!