What I have observed in the course of my studying various behaviours of fellow human beings is their ability to un-learn good characters.
A friend I was chatting on Facebook the other day told me he is tired of being a nice guy. According to him, it doesn't pay at all. He is saying that he is better off being a bad guy or better still, a scorpion in human shield so that he can afford to give people who mess with him the pay-back treatment. I was not shocked by his outburst. I simply asked him to clarify his claims to me. He told me how he was of good help to a friend when that friend was in need and how now that he is in need, that same friend has refused to help him out.
Waoh! Now, that is unfair to say the least. Why are people becoming this awful nowadays, I asked. It is simply unpleasant to forget someone who helped you when you needed help more than you needed oxygen. It sends jitters down ones spine and chills the mind when you remember such ingrate.
My point here is that we should not stop from being nice to people simply because one of them or a few more have paid you for the good deeds done them in bad coin. It has been happening even before God considered your creation. In the bible, we are told of ten men down with leprosy who received helaing from Jesus Christ Himself. They all left for their various homes jubilating, and it was only one out of ten of them that had a rethink that caused him to go back to Jesus to give thanks.
I told my friend that I have had such experiences in the past but I'm yet to stop reaping from the peace of mind it gives me whenever I have been of help to someone even when that help comes in form of a heaalthy smile into someone's eyes.
So my friends, it is never too late to learn to keep up with letting go of the good in us. Thank God you are found worthy of help by anybody out there. As God have made you important to be of help to one of His own, you don't think He'll let you lack?
Remember the cliche that says 'givers never lack' It is truthful, they never lack. You might be in lack but somehow, God sends you His help. Think about all that you have achieved in life and tell me the number of them you achieved in the midst of plenty.
Have a good rethink on this and learn to spread help to all who need them.
A friend I was chatting on Facebook the other day told me he is tired of being a nice guy. According to him, it doesn't pay at all. He is saying that he is better off being a bad guy or better still, a scorpion in human shield so that he can afford to give people who mess with him the pay-back treatment. I was not shocked by his outburst. I simply asked him to clarify his claims to me. He told me how he was of good help to a friend when that friend was in need and how now that he is in need, that same friend has refused to help him out.
Waoh! Now, that is unfair to say the least. Why are people becoming this awful nowadays, I asked. It is simply unpleasant to forget someone who helped you when you needed help more than you needed oxygen. It sends jitters down ones spine and chills the mind when you remember such ingrate.
My point here is that we should not stop from being nice to people simply because one of them or a few more have paid you for the good deeds done them in bad coin. It has been happening even before God considered your creation. In the bible, we are told of ten men down with leprosy who received helaing from Jesus Christ Himself. They all left for their various homes jubilating, and it was only one out of ten of them that had a rethink that caused him to go back to Jesus to give thanks.
I told my friend that I have had such experiences in the past but I'm yet to stop reaping from the peace of mind it gives me whenever I have been of help to someone even when that help comes in form of a heaalthy smile into someone's eyes.
So my friends, it is never too late to learn to keep up with letting go of the good in us. Thank God you are found worthy of help by anybody out there. As God have made you important to be of help to one of His own, you don't think He'll let you lack?
Remember the cliche that says 'givers never lack' It is truthful, they never lack. You might be in lack but somehow, God sends you His help. Think about all that you have achieved in life and tell me the number of them you achieved in the midst of plenty.
Have a good rethink on this and learn to spread help to all who need them.
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