As a christian, I know that things are not justified in this world alone. Good for the sake of good, sounds good; but is a little off since it is redundant. I help others not to make the world a better place, but simply because Jesus has given me the means to help the person before me. The idea of philanthropy is, within its very meaning, a statement of moral intent.......'good people' doing good. But why?
I know many will not understand this, but I see something beyond which pours its meaning into what I do and waits to see how I react to it. If the child is hungry and cold, and I have the means, it is my privilege to feed the child and to clothe the child. If I do that then I will grow a little more in the direction God wants me to grow. So, from one point of view, I cannot seperate what I do from God, for now I do all that I do for and through Him, and He enables me to do it. As we help others, we grow in a certain way to Him that makes all the difference. So, christians cannot fully seperate God and what we do; why should we? We have a concrete eternal reason for doing it.............
I know many will not understand this, but I see something beyond which pours its meaning into what I do and waits to see how I react to it. If the child is hungry and cold, and I have the means, it is my privilege to feed the child and to clothe the child. If I do that then I will grow a little more in the direction God wants me to grow. So, from one point of view, I cannot seperate what I do from God, for now I do all that I do for and through Him, and He enables me to do it. As we help others, we grow in a certain way to Him that makes all the difference. So, christians cannot fully seperate God and what we do; why should we? We have a concrete eternal reason for doing it.............
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