Selfishness Is Dangerous

Sometimes I get scared when I think of the dangers of selfishness. What does it do to my personality? What does it do to my family? How can I teach them to give, and to give gladly and generously...to learn to trust in something other than materialistic things?

This is one of the tasks of the Christian Faith. I must learn "FAITH" for myself, before I can teach it to my children. I must learn to give to God without penny‑pinching in the assurance that when I give up my "hoarding" and give up my faith in "material things", I begin to launch out in faith with a God who has assured me that He will "open the windows of heaven, and pour down an overflowing blessing." (Malachi 3:10b) An old rhyme goes as follows:

If I get mine,
And God gets His
Then everything will be just fine
But if I get mine
And keep His too
What do you think God will do?

And someone has added the answer, "We believe God will collect!" I'm not sure I know how God "collects," but I do believe I understand the spiritual law of giving. A lake that receives but does not give out is a stagnant lake. By that same token, a life that receives without giving back just as generously, becomes a dead soul!

I do not want to make the mistake of not giving! I believe God has given me the privilege of giving to keep me from becoming absolutely selfish. Here then, is a law of my being..."giving is living". Have I really understood the "health‑cure" my church offers me when it asks me to give?

As a Christian, I have never felt strange about asking people to give. Not to do so, would be an act of unconcern on my part!