Giving is Getting
"You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you've done something for someone who'll never be able to repay you."
Makes you think doesn't it? How often do we live perfect days?
I know this quote is totaly true for me. I feel happiest when i make other people happy. It is a selfish reason to make people happy i know, but it's how i feel. I get joy out of other people's joy, and so the best way to forget life's problems, is to try to make people happy.
"No man can live happily who turns everything to his own advantage. You must live for others if you wish to live for yourself."
No saying rings truer.
(quotes taken from word for today)
Makes you think doesn't it? How often do we live perfect days?
I know this quote is totaly true for me. I feel happiest when i make other people happy. It is a selfish reason to make people happy i know, but it's how i feel. I get joy out of other people's joy, and so the best way to forget life's problems, is to try to make people happy.
"No man can live happily who turns everything to his own advantage. You must live for others if you wish to live for yourself."
No saying rings truer.
(quotes taken from word for today)
posted by Rayd at 4:23 pm
4 Comments:
"What is the chief end of (wo)man?" comes from the WESTMINSTER SHORTER CATECHISM, http://www.reformed.org/documents/WSC_frames.html
or another wauy of putting the question is, "What is the meaning of life?"
without going into a 3 point sermon, the answer is recorded as "...to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever."
If this is the case, then it seems to me like you're a step closer to discovering the true meaning of life!
Amen brother.
It's funny maybe good minds do truly think alike... cas... I wrote a post the other night about the joy & blessing of giving but didn't post it for some reason!
lol, whoosh, that was way over my head Jas. I don't think i'm a step closer to understanding what that means. How does giving make me closer to undertanding the meaning of life? (Layman's terms please)
Amy, "great minds think alike, fools seldom differ"
So either we are both really smart or really foolish. And seeing you're an academic i take it as the former! :D
well, if the Westminster Shorter Catechism desines our purpose or meaning in life as glorifying God and enjoying him forever, then in your love and encouragement of others, (given, that what we do for others, we also do for Jesus, Matt 25:40) you are giving God glory, and you take happiness/enjoyment from this, do you not think this brings you a step closer to living out the true purpose God has created you?
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