Receiving May be Giving 

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.  Acts 20:35

We get so determined to take care of ourselves we rob other people of the ability to give.

Next time we are doing something and someone offers to help, consider if we are robbing someone else of the ability to give to us.  Maybe we need to learn to accept.  Most of us know how to give.

Have we ever given someone something out of love and they refused it?  We somehow feel cheated. Are we doing that to others?

 

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?  Romans 8:32

Seems one reason some people have a hard time accepting God's love is because it is free.   If it could be earned or purchased everybody would have it.  All God wants in return is our love, we have to be the receiver.