SELFLESSNESS & GIVING

SELFLESSNESS & GIVING


Did you know
That there is a SECRET
to human life?


That nothing TRANSFORMS us
Like selflessness and GIVING


Giving is LIVING
And living is GIVING
That is the KEY to life


Giving yourself away=time-treasure-
And talent
NO ONE ever did it like Jesus
No one else ever gave
Themselves 100% away


“SHARE your bread
With the hungry
….....
Then your light shall
BREAK FORTH like the dawn
….....” Isaiah 58:7-8


This is a TOUGH passage
For many of us


Because it can make us
FEEL guilty-if-
We are not sharing
With the hungry and the homeless


But the TRUTH is-all-
ANY of us can do-
Is DO-what we can


But the truth is also
WHEN we begin to GIVE & SHARE
What we have with others


To LOVE OTHERS=
We feel BETTER about ourselves


GIVE what you can=TIME-treasure-
Talent=any or all of these
In SOME measure suffices


“The GENEROUS will themselves
Be blessed


For they SHARE their food
With the poor” Proverbs 22:9


“His master replied,
'Well done--
Good and faithful servant!


You have been faithful
With a few things-


I will put you in charge
Of many thing


Come and share
Your Master's happiness'” Matthew 25:23


LIVE out of selflessness
And GIVING-for God loves-
GOD LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER


“EACH of you should give
WHAT you have decided
In your HEART to give


NOT reluctantly or under compulsion
For God
LOVES a cheerful giver” 2 Corinthians 9:7


When we live this way
GIVING & SHARING what we can


Because we LOVE
To give ourselves away


The LIGHT in us
Breaks forth-
Like the sun glowing


And we MOVE CLOSER
To the Jesus
Who dwells in us


When you REACH OUT
To others-continually giving
WHAT you have to give


EVEN if all it is-
IS an encouraging word


Our giving TURNS our loneliness
Inside out
For GIVING is a CURE
For isolation


And SERVICE
Is a cure
For despair


ALWAYS do what you can
SHARING & GIVING
For living is giving -and
Giving is living


And SELFLESSNESS & GIVING makes
A WORLD FULL OF FRIENDS


In Jesus' name


Robert P. Wallman
2-4-17





Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Mary Marrocco