Scripture informs us that as we sow, so shall we reap.
Our investments in the lives of people entering our orbit provide us with a daily growing awareness that our sacrifices serving the common good, in Our Father's good time rewards us with all that He supplies for our well being, enabling us to continue being His outreach into lives of those He introduces to us.
I have seen something else under the sun:
The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.
~ Ecclesiastes 9:11
Each of us is called into Our Father's service, without exception knocking on our door, inviting us to follow His plan for our life's journey of self discovery.
“Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.
~ Apocalypse 3:20
Over the years I have been approached by well intentioned people asking me why their acts of kindness, and sacrifices providing for those in need are not being rewarded by Our Father. My reply invites the questioner to recognise that their resources remain more than sufficient to cover their own obligations, and assist those who by perceived chance enter their life, needing practical help.
Thanking Our Father for our patience with our life's daily challenges, our good health, and our joy for being granted another day of living may well teach us that Divine Providence supplies us with all that we will ever need, when we continue to share our good fortune with those who lack...
He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
~ Luke 14:12-14
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