This post was inspired by a post by Steph earlier this week.

It also reminds me of a lesson I learned the hard way this year: No matter how much I do, I can’t save the world. No matter how much anyone does, none of us can save the world. But there is one who has already done so. Which means that, instead of helping others because it’s necessary, we’re free to help others because, well, we’re free.

I think that’s why God made us such vulnerable, needy people. And why rich people are often so discontented:
The presence of a need is an opportunity to love.

Woe to me if I live a life driven by sheer obligation and duty. What an empty, meaningless life.

I know a lot of you have probably read this time after time, but I urge you to read it all the way through and examine your own heart and your own deeds.

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels,
but do not have love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have a faith that can move mountains,
but do not have love,
I am nothing.

If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,
but do not have love,
I gain nothing.

~Παῦλος, 5-67 A.D.

 


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