I still have not figured out why it is so hard for me to make time to blog! I always have intentions of doing it, but seem to fail at following those through more often than not...but I need to start practicing trying to blog/journal everyday, because I am planning on keeping an online blog while I am in Africa! I am leaving in 48days:) the count down is on! Here is a little devotional I found, that really challenged me!
"Give and it shall be given unto you." - Luke 6:38
The Law of Reciprocity
Mother Teresa wrote" One night a man came to our house and said, "There's a family of eight children who haven't eaten for days.' I took some food and went to see them. When I got there I saw the faces of little children disfigured by malnutrition. There was no sadness there, just the pain of hunger. I gave a sack of rice to the mother. She kept one half and went out carrying the other. When she came back I asked, 'Where did you go?' She answered, "To my neighbors, they're hungry also.' I wasn't surprised that she gave, the poor are usually very generous. But I was surprised that she knew they were hungry. As a rule, when we're suffering we are so focused on our own problems that we have no time for others." That's the law of reciprocity!
It teaches you that:
1)You can give your way to great blessing. Jesus said: "Give, and it shall be given unto you"(Luke 6:38). No seed is too little to multiply if you're willing to sow it. (2)What you do for others determines what God does for you. "Knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord"(Eph 6:8). (3)Your gift is the key to your future, but you must be willing to give it. "How?" you ask. By finding a cause greater than yourself and pouring your life into it! When you do that you discover two things: (a) It's okay to acknowledge your limitations as long as you don't build your life around them. (b) That success begins by focusing on what you have, not on what you don't!
The Law of Reciprocity
Mother Teresa wrote" One night a man came to our house and said, "There's a family of eight children who haven't eaten for days.' I took some food and went to see them. When I got there I saw the faces of little children disfigured by malnutrition. There was no sadness there, just the pain of hunger. I gave a sack of rice to the mother. She kept one half and went out carrying the other. When she came back I asked, 'Where did you go?' She answered, "To my neighbors, they're hungry also.' I wasn't surprised that she gave, the poor are usually very generous. But I was surprised that she knew they were hungry. As a rule, when we're suffering we are so focused on our own problems that we have no time for others." That's the law of reciprocity!
It teaches you that:
1)You can give your way to great blessing. Jesus said: "Give, and it shall be given unto you"(Luke 6:38). No seed is too little to multiply if you're willing to sow it. (2)What you do for others determines what God does for you. "Knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord"(Eph 6:8). (3)Your gift is the key to your future, but you must be willing to give it. "How?" you ask. By finding a cause greater than yourself and pouring your life into it! When you do that you discover two things: (a) It's okay to acknowledge your limitations as long as you don't build your life around them. (b) That success begins by focusing on what you have, not on what you don't!
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