The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it-Thoreau David Henry
Has it ever crossed your mind that life is a currency?A currency that can buy tangible possessions and abstract dreams? Life is a powerful denomination that buys fantasy and realistic gain altogether.It is life that gives life to everything else.When life talks ,money listens.yet,how many have made money to be the noisy subject over every matter!
Exchanging life for anything is not a pleasant affair.It is what men religiously term as a SACRIFICE. We all know that a sacrifice is not worth its name if we get familiar with it that it becomes a source of our comfort.the alter where life is laid down is is not a comfort zone.It is a cup,that you would fill with tears to be taken away from you.
However,without letting go of the seed ,you cannot get hold of the harvest.In sacrificing,one finds the true worth of what one seeks to dearly worship,adore or have pride in.be it in honoring GOD or mammon.Be it warm friendship or true love.Sacrifice is a reasonable service.
Without service there can be no fellowship and therefore community cannot be built to abundance and vibrancy.without sacrifice,life and value are forfeited.
greater love has no one than this,he lay his life for his friends- john 15;13
So how do you offer yours as a living sacrifice?
True in sacrifice is the seeking of a higher good or ideal.Something better or greater is sought .greater love will always be found in loving a lesser being.sacrifice is the mother nature of a servant spirit,in service the customer cannot be given any lower position other than KING.The customer's dignity is preserved intact.
This is shows you the most excellent way to love.Consider the dignity of your neighbor
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do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit,but in humility consider others better than yourself.each of you should look not only to your own interests ,but also to the interests of others Philippians 2;3-4
The sad part,is our society is getting more individualistic.Self-centredness is taking center stage.What makes it more gloomy,is our consumerism tendencies. Few serve one another out of dignity bestowed on humanity.Service today is done under business law in the name of legal tender.Money steals all the tenderness in service,it talks and men listen.
What a funny world ,where notes and coins speak?
For what can a man exchange for the dignity of his neighbor?
1.ACCEPTANCE
Any sales person can identify with the joy of acceptance and the sorrow of rejection.We are all sales people in our communities.Every proposal to take our relationships with each other in the community expose our vulnerability.Rejection is painful for any man,though in our defense we put bold faces and declare,"nothing is ever personal"such claims never take away the personal pain we experience we feel.We all have a desire to be accepted as we are.Acceptance is the grace that affirms our truest self and prompts us to desire to be better.
Acceptance accepts that others need dignified treatment as they presently are without coloring them or sugarcoating their disposition to us.
2.TRUST
Trust is ever a risky transaction,yet it returns are never without surprise.
You cannot rust everybody,and neither can you not trust anybody,that would be living in a fools paradise in an island that needs people.A balance must be struck,some life must be sacrificed.
When one trusts,vulnerability threatens his ego.Confidence is given to the reins of others in exchange of nothing but hope that your helplessness wont be used against you. other peoples dignity will be put to test when you trust them.if you play safe you will rob them a chance to proof themselves worthy of respect.
Dare to give trust a chance.
3.ACCOUNTABILITY
Whether you are on top or at the bottom.ahead or trailing from behind,you can be accountable.
Being accountable means you hold yourself responsible and you allow others to hold you in check over your contributions.Only contributors can be accountable.This is because accountability rides on the wings of contribution,and whosoever contributes ,he should be accountable.This is a a product of interdependent people only.
If you are dependent,you cannot account for anything,for your hands are tied.You are a puppet and in deep slavery.Your dignity has been snatched from you.Working well under supervision is a dignity disease.
If you be independent,you are the Lord and your puppets only move at your stir.You contribute nothing to their betterment but fatigue and waste.It is a harsh reality when you know of your contribution to their pain and thus will shy away from being accountable.
4.GRATITUDE
It is a ungraceful not to be appreciative and thankful.
Sharing in goodness with the giver of goodness has a multiplying effect on goodness.
Gratitude is the goodness that cleanses the lepers, good people should do something.It all starts with gratitude. BEWARE, it is good people who are at risk of taking goodness of others for granted.
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