To Give Is to Receive

          If you give to another without expecting anything in return, then you will be rewarded by Spiritual Law.  Therefore I say to you that to give is to receive.

          Let us be plain about it.  Our Father gave us all the right to expect and the right to receive according to the way that our intentions were offered.  If we wanted something for ourselves in order to show off to others how great we were, then it is only our ego which receives.

          If we ask because we need something in order to survive or to do our honest days work for the greater good of all, it is likely to be supplied to us and we should be grateful for that fact. 

          Also we can ask for good things to be sent to others who are in need, such as health or a wealth of comforts, then we shall see that person prosper before our very eyes and we should rejoice because of it.

          In doing good things for others for the right and proper reasons and providing that there are no barriers to their receiving the same through their own desires or past errors of judgement, then through our own example we shall be blessed for our way of life in giving unto others what they are in need of.

          Often we are in a position to give help either physically or mentally and we are too busy to stop in our lives doing what is thought to be good for us.  We dash hither and thither, often not being able to take a breath and in order to survive the day we are at risk to our own health.

          If we stopped and thought about the needs of others as well as ourselves a little more, we should be blessed by a calmer outlook and a more achievable target each and every day.

          Saying, 'Who would do it if I didn't?' is not an acceptable answer, because it will transpire that when you burn yourself out by your rushing and trying to cram more into the day than you have hours or energy available, then they will have to do it for themselves.

          Sometimes people say to us that it is easier to do it oneself than to have to argue about another helping out and so they get away with their laziness at your expense and fail to take responsibility for their actions as they should.

          We all reap what we sow in the end and so it is that when you give to another you will be rewarded for your actions by Spiritual Law.  If you fail to respond or do selfish things for others, then you will reap what you did for yourself.

          It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.  Often you have heard that said as I once said it, but you see the difficulty is that the rich man is frightened of losing his riches and so he is very frugal about what he does with them.

          It is how you use the gifts that you receive that matters and if the rich man lives in luxury and does nothing to ease the suffering of those around them, then he will indeed find it difficult to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

          So look to what you have and give of it freely, whether that is your time or your understanding of other people's difficulties.  Invest in your future by living a life on this earth plane of existence, so that you are ready to be received into that heavenly plane of existence when to pass on.

          If you become so bound up in the material ways of the world, you will have much to adjust to latter on and it is much easier I can assure you to grasp the nettle here on earth and look within yourself by giving where you can and receiving the benefits that are due to you.

          Look to the needs of others and you will never go short yourself providing that your motives are selfless and you are not just looking with a greedy eye and coveting greater material wealth for yourself, which you must leave behind when you pass on.

          Material wealth can never replace the wealth of the soul within which is build upon love, compassion and the helping of those in need, as we all are at some time in our lives.  Amen.