If you love God generosity must be
the chief characteristic of your love, A narrow and selfish heart does not know
what it is to love.-- Imitation
of Blessed Virgin Mary, by Saint Ambrose.
In today’s world people who are generous
are very few and people who are selfish are many. When we live a selfish life
then we will love those who love us and hate those who hate us.
If we love those who love us then surely
there is no reward for us because all sinners and unbelievers also do the same.
Generosity is not connected only to money
but to other things. We have to ask ourselves whether we are generous in giving
our time to others, whether we are generous in helping the needy, whether we
are generous in serving God, whether we are generous in helping the poor with
the best we can and so on.
If we are selfish we will not know how to
love others because our mind will be narrow and limited to us only. We have all
the time to do everything possible so that our life will be comfortable and
when we come across people with brokenness we just walk away from them.
Selfishness will always make us focus on
ourselves and when we dwell in it for long time then surely we will be
connected to the world and devil more than God. When we are filled with
selfishness then we cannot serve God who is selfless. When we are selfish we
miss many graces God wants to bestow upon us and also our relationship with God
also will be weak.
Date:
25: 08: 2020.
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