‘Givers never lack’ saying is not enough motivation to help givers keep giving. When you think about everything in the long run, givers have to give from a Messianic perspective. You give without considering what you’ll get from the act.
If you consider people’s actions before extending a helping hand of help to them, we will discover that we might not be doing favors for anybody.
When Jesus healed ten lepers in the Bible, only one came to give thanks despite the intangibility of the miracle.
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Gratitude comes from knowing, realising the extent of what you’ve received. Without realising this, you cannot be thankful in the appropriate manner. True gratitude comes from the heart and not numerous words or emphasis on the “u” in thank you.
Some people who you think are grateful might do it in the routine of Thanksgiving and not out of deep understanding. But one saying is they once you start to give thanks continually, the reason seeps into your soul and you gain understanding.
As someone who gives, you can not always give grateful people. Once in a while, ingrates come your way to show you a small pepper. As a giver, you must be able to discern whom to help to avoid giving the wrong folks favors.
From a few sermons on the mount, I have been able to learn from the mouth of a Rabbi that there are certain people you do not help. If you do, the giving is parasitic to you as a giver.
You don’t give people who are meant to use that experience to lack to scale up and build coping skills. If you do, you let them miss their training experience, and they’ll continually be almost like a bug on you, feeding from you.
There is a school of thought that is mostly said in Yoruba that explains the attitude of a giver. No matter what the recipient of help does, whether grateful or not, you are not supposed to go back on your help. It is said as, ‘Olore ki n si’regun’.
