Praying not accompanied by giving is not good enough. We
are commanded to love one another as Christ loved us and He loved us by
giving Himself to us, which is the ultimate kind of giving. Prayer must
bring forth love and giving. Anyone who merely prays without giving is
not truly praying and also not fully obeying the commandment to love
another as oneself.
One promises to pray for someone when one fails to help someone. This could be a genuine case of inability or it could be a polite excuse for not helping someone. Helping is troublesome. It always involves cost that not many are willing to pay. Of course prayer is also help, but it must be sincere in order to be so.Help. Do not advice. Help. Do not compliment. When a man needs help, just help.When a man needs help the best thing one can do for him is to give him help. Any other thing no matter how well-meant it may be is quite useless.
Feed someone. Or just leave him alone.
You don't lecture about the need for conserving food to the one who is hungry. You just feed him.
Don't call me "son" and fail to act like my mother. Don't call me " a great prophet" and fail to give me your immediate attention.
When
a desperate young man came to me several years ago and asked me for
help, I'm grateful that I didn't send him away with only a prayer. When
my own uncle requested me for help at a time when no one would trust
him, I'm grateful that I didn't send him with only my tears and prayers.
Yesterday when I met a needy person on the road, I'm grateful that I
didn't leave her only with my blessings. I'm grateful to God that He
made me give on every occasion, for giving is better than receiving and
is better than only praying without giving.
I certainly appreciate the one who does not even bother to look in the direction of a needy person than the one who approaches him with pious love and many spoken blessings without actually doing one practical thing to meet his need.
To care about something and to do nothing about it is not caring at all.
I certainly appreciate the one who does not even bother to look in the direction of a needy person than the one who approaches him with pious love and many spoken blessings without actually doing one practical thing to meet his need.
To care about something and to do nothing about it is not caring at all.
- Samuel Godfrey George
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