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Jesus Loves You

"Jesus Loves You and I"

By

Tina Tobo

... the ultimate law is love.

Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me." Do you think following Jesus Christ would make you a liability or poor? Well I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread. Why? because God sends us, His multitude of those who believe, who are of one heart and one soul, to anyone among us who lacks. 

As the Body of Christ no one has any of the things he or she possessed was his or her own, but all things are held in common. Possessors of lands or houses could sell them, and bring the proceeds of the things that were sold for distribution to each as anyone has need. Those who possess valuables can sell such and give alms. 

This form of Christianity glorifies God. This form of giving exemplifies the universal principle that when we give it will be given to us: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into our bosom. For with the same measure that we use, will be measured back to us. Our giving to those who lack basic needs cannot diminish us, instead we are rewarded by God even in ways money cannot provide. 

We are to provide for ourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. For where our treasure is, there our hearts will be also. If we treasure our earthly possessions as security to the detriment of a brother or sister in need of what we can provide, such possessions can be lost to our mortality, moth, rust or thieves. 

Then we would realise that our networth does not depend on our network. Our Help is in the name of the Lord Who made heaven and earth. Our help comes from above not abroad. So with our riches, when we give a feast, we ought to invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, because they cannot repay us. Our reward shall be at the resurrection of the just, and on earth we shall be blessed. For this do not lost heart, for we shall see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living. He who gives to the poor will not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many curses. 

Do you not think that was the error of the Rich Man by whose gate Lazarus the poor man stayed in penury and subhuman condition for mere animals to lick his wounds? If you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness shall be as the noonday. In fact in the Lord's bosom shall we dwell, for Jesus loves you and I.

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