Charity Case
I always try to help people out whenever I can, but whenever I'm the one that's in need, I try my best push past the issue on my own. I don't like admitting that I need help, I don't like admitting that I'm struggling. I don't want to bother other people with my burdens (except for a select few) and I don't want to hear a sunday school response.
Why do we go the distance to help people out? Because its what Christian's do? Because it's what is right? In regards to asking for help, I'm no different from the next person who doesn't like to feel in need. In that moment, I can start to understand how other feel when tragedy hits and people offer their condolensces out of pity. No one wants to feel like a charity case. No want wants to be demeaned. Especially in the eyes of non-Christians, no one necessarily recieving help just because its what our God calls us to do, or because it is the right thing to do. Doing that turns all our actions as a duty with undertones of self-righteousness and condemnation instead of love and compassion. You know, I looked it up in the dictionary, there's a term for this kind of attitude: pharisaical.
What gets lost in the bigger picture is that I'm as much of a charity case and the next person in the eyes of God. It's not a matter of helping because I have the ability to, but because I've been helped so many times before. For the first time, I think I begin to understand what grace and humility really means and that I am truly nothing without God.
Why do we go the distance to help people out? Because its what Christian's do? Because it's what is right? In regards to asking for help, I'm no different from the next person who doesn't like to feel in need. In that moment, I can start to understand how other feel when tragedy hits and people offer their condolensces out of pity. No one wants to feel like a charity case. No want wants to be demeaned. Especially in the eyes of non-Christians, no one necessarily recieving help just because its what our God calls us to do, or because it is the right thing to do. Doing that turns all our actions as a duty with undertones of self-righteousness and condemnation instead of love and compassion. You know, I looked it up in the dictionary, there's a term for this kind of attitude: pharisaical.
What gets lost in the bigger picture is that I'm as much of a charity case and the next person in the eyes of God. It's not a matter of helping because I have the ability to, but because I've been helped so many times before. For the first time, I think I begin to understand what grace and humility really means and that I am truly nothing without God.
2 Comments:
A lot of time I know it is my self pride that get the best of me.
Maybe it is this male ego factor that I can do it b/c I am the man.
The more I realize my own flaws, the more I rely on God's blessing.
I know how you feel man...You're there for everyone else, but how do yo reach out when you're in need? You know what I've gone through this past year, the ups and downs...Thxs man! BFF's...hahaha.
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