I've been meaning to get around to this for some time. Today's reading in Selwyn Hughes' book, Every Day Light, hit the nail on the head. My view is that in this life there are Givers and Takers. Givers use their time, energy, and wealth on behalf of others, pretty much following Paul's command in Romans 12:13, "Show hospitality." Takers make it their goal to fleece the Givers without getting caught, or by actually making the Givers think they are friends so they are willing to be taken...sometimes for years. They're always "working the angles" of life to gain what they seem to consider an advantage. Christians and non-Christians alike play these roles quite regularly, as I've observed over the last 28 years.
Hughes writes based on Matthew 6:22, "If your 'eye'--your outlook on life, your whole way of looking at things and people--is generous, then your whole personality is illuminated, is lighted up. If you have a greedy or selfish 'eye', your whole being will be filled with darkness." Right on the mark, Selwyn!! By the way, he was a Welsh pastor who lived from April, 1928 to January, 2006.
So what's my point? If you're a Giver who's realized you've been taken, keep a wary eye out but avoid becoming Scrooge in the process...that only gives Satan a victory. Turn the Taker over to the Lord, either to be disciplined as a Christian or punished as a pagan and remain hospitable and full of light.
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