Giving is love

Today I understood that there's a difference between pride and a "pride problem". Everyone has pride but not everyone has a pride problem.

Pride is an attitude that stinks (big time!) and it's an abomination to God. Let's stay away from it and guard our hearts closely against it.

I watched Money No Enough 2 today! It was a pretty good movie speaking of an unconditional sacrifice of a mother for her sons from their conception till adulthood! How noble! It sometimes make me wonder if I would do the same if I'm a mum too. Is it innate in every mother to have such love for their children? The desire to protect and provide the best is amazingly compelling. I'm so in awe! Not that I'm unwilling or doubtful of such love and sacrifice, but the selflessness is deserving of all the admiration and praise! Love GIVES. The greatest act of love is seen by Jesus Christ when He GAVE His life for us on the cross! It's really true when they say how much we LOVE someone or something can be seen by how much we GIVE ourselves to them.

The movie also manages to paint out the various social issues faced by Singaporeans through very dramatic and realistic scenes! They voice out the inner cries of Singaporeans, both young and old. And the fact that Singapore is inching toward an ageing society makes the issue of caring for the elderly ever more pertinent. As mammon becomes more important in the eyes of people, I pray we will not forget to be compassionate to our elders whom some may not have as much ability to bring in the wealth brought in by the younger generation. It's so easy to harden our hearts once we climb higher and higher to the top and soon people will start to take things for granted and become ungrateful for the little things they receive in life. That's when unreasonable demands step in. That's human nature, unfortunately.

I pray we will always be so appreciative of things we have in life, especially the people who are positioned in our lives. It's always the relationship that matters above all things, like how relationship precedes ministry. And I really want to treasure relationships more as I grow, because it's something that is irreplaceable by anything else in the world. Without it, our hearts will become empty and that is when we become truly POOR. One takeaway from the movie is that we are not poor when we are financially inadequate. We are only poor when we realize that in our dire times, there's no one to be there for us. Or at the end of our lives, we realize that all the wealth that is accumulated has come to nothing when there is no one to share them with. Doesn't that sound like so many stories that we have heard? (one after being saved from the brink of death starts giving away their wealth and pursue the intangible things in life). Isn't sad that many people regret only after they lose a precious someone whom they previously fail to treasure but trample them under their selfish ambitions and pride?

Thank God for God. If not, living the life of compassion and with the right attitudes will be impossible. Thank you Jesus. :)