givers and hoarders

A person with not-enough mentality thinks:
- there is not enough food for everyone, I better pig out at the buffet table.
- there is not enough knowledge around, I better not share my ideas or tell my friends what I know
- there is not enough wealth in the world, I need to steal, kill, or in any other way accumulate for myself.

but who owns all the cattle in the field, or the gold and sliver?
Ikea got rich selling tables and chairs, but Ikea didnt make the tree grow although they may have planted the tree and fertilized the ground, God made the plant grow.
Tiffany's carved and molded that beautiful diamond ring but they surely didnt make the diamond or gold, in fact, science has found a way to make quick and cheap diamonds, but purist scoff it as fakes.

So man wants and uses materials that come from nature, from the earth, but yet fail to see who placed it there in the first place. God.

Don't people realize that in Gen 1:1 it says, in the begining, God...
yup, whatever it is, if you trace it back far enough, you end up conforming to the singularity of God.
And...
No, you don't trace back to monkeys. Scientist try to reason out and say it was evolution but Charles Darwin is simply wrong (someone must have paid him peanuts, imho).

And because God has placed life in this earth, whatever that you withold from it, but clench in your fist will die and dissapear, but whatever that you bury, invest, or plant in the earth will grow.

Give and it will come back to you....

The story of the boy with 5 loaves and 2 fishes. He gave.

I gave.
I gave to my church, to environmental causes, to mission work in disaster areas.
I gave time, knowledge, training, money.

...good measure, pressed down, and running over...

and I reaped.
my dictionary defines 'reaped' : to gather, as of natural products.
Yes, when you sow, its only a natural action for you to expect produce naturally returning.

I reaped a financially independant life from my parents since graduation 4 years ago.
I reaped friendships from different cities around the world.
I reaped scholarships, grants, publications; I have been a 'professional' student for the past 3 years and will be for the next 4 years - people actually pay me to study; how cool is that?
I reaped knowlegde with the countries I visited and the very diverse group of people I work with.
I reaped security, my parents are doing great, with my dad getting promotions when he should be retiring and mum really making a difference in people's lives through her ministry.
I reaped a loving and wise girlfriend to whom its about time I propose.

My 5 loaves and 2 fishes has multipled over.