Generosity Is The Spirit

Literally meaning of Generosity, a willingness to give help or support by the way of money, kindness. A christian definition of generosity-Jesus fed five thousand people with five barley loaves and two small fish. His nature is to be abundantly generous. The good news for us is that we can learn to be just as generous. Jn.6:11-13 " Then Jesus took the loaves,and when he had given thanks,he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted." 

In other words generosity is an aspect of God. One of the attributes of God's nature, one aspect of love, we could say,is its generosity or abundance.The five thousand people in the crowd were not just kept for starvation -they are generously provided for! The abundance was sufficient to be gathered up and put to good use so that none of that blessing would be wasted. 2Pet:1:3-4 " His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness,through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.Thus he has given us,through these things,his precious and very great promises,so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust,and may become participants of the divine nature."

Definition of Spirit-the non-physical part of a person which is the seat of emotions and character,the soul,the prevailing or typical quality,mood.Its a particular way of thinking,feeling,or behaving,especially a way that is typical of particular group of people, an activity,a time,or a place.Eg: players have a very strong team spirit-loyalty to each other.

Many ask for blessings,but only few receive.The giver is always giving but the taker is not there-the sincerity is missing.One who gives blessings gives freely,but the one who receives has to be sincere.Sincerity is the qualification to receive blessings.Why do people choose to be sincere only sometimes.People are going after pleasure makes them insincere.When you are sincere,you simply enjoy pleasure without craving for it.Sincerity is being in touch with your depth.When you feel you are struck in life and not growing, or are bombarded by desires,when you feel dryness,no enthusiasm,no juice,what do you do.

Feel generous -right now,not tomorrow,but right now.Both rich and poor can feel generous .Generosity is a quality of spirit. When you feel generous,your life becomes abundant,full of compassion and love.

Gratitude always has self-concern.You are greatful because you have something or you get something.Essentially,generosity is not an act. It is state of consciousness,but it finds its expression in an act. 

A person who is generous of spirit is generally considered a magnanimous person,high-minded,fair,noble,big and worthy. People who are generous spirits tend to extend to others what they want for themselves. It is the golden rule personified.

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People Always Running After Happiness

People spend their whole lives running after happiness and thinking, if I had this or that I would be happy. But happiness through physical pleasure disappears the moment the pleasure is gone. One can never get enough and is never happy. This has been  shown, time and time again, with the world's most popular and richest people who happen to often be depressed.

Do we need to eat all the time, every day?. By fasting,by not doing anything,by abandoning all your works,all desires,you allow your body to stop,to rest,to renew itself.Try your best to learn the art of stopping of resting. People on holidays are very eager to go to the picnic spot and to resorts,and they think that they are going to rest.but I am not sure that they are going to rest.They may get very tired after the period of resting. If you can allow your body to rest, then you can also allow your mind, your consciousness,to rest also. All of us need it.

All are living in a mechanical life,especially the working class.No one is satisfied with their own life due to constrained of their work or their family problems.If we stand in a bus stop or in a railway station one can watch how public is moving.No one is happy with, never can see a smiling face, on the contrary we can see sadness in each and every once face.Running towards their destination, nobody bothers anybody and they don't have any peace of mind and not getting real rest in their own life.

There is comfort in knowing that everything is temporary,which means even sorrow's won't last long either. We do not have to look for happiness outside, ourselves happiness lies within. That spiritual bliss of soul is now covered by this material body made of earth,water, fire, air and ether.

Certain animals knows that there is a reserve in itself. It can survive many, many days without eating,and that is why the animal is not eager to go and look for something to eat.In fact,fasting is a very wonderful way of healing yourself. The most difficult disease you have may just be healed by fasting.

Material happiness is temporary,one is happy with beautiful wife,girlfriend,boy friend,bank balance,good job,relatives,home and car.Such happiness is material and thus short lived.

You know your needs. Do you have the opportunity to lie down and really rest? Do you have the opportunity to really sit down, properly? Because,in you,there is a tendency to struggle, to do this,to do that,because you have been taught since time immemorial that you have to struggle for your happiness.And during many generations,you have been struggling,you have been running.

You have never been able to stop.Our great grandfather did that,our grandfather did that,our father did that,and now we are doing exactly the same thing. Always running,because we believe that happiness is something in the future,and you have to go there in order to grasp it.

Thomas Brooks (1608-1680 ) under the title " The Crown and Glory Of Christianity: Or, The Only Way To Happiness (1662). Its a massive defense of interconnectedness of human happiness and holiness that runs on and on,point after subpoint,to make the case irrefutably clear from Scripture.

Holiness differs nothing from happiness but in name," Brooks boldly writes near the opening of the book. "Holiness is happiness in the bud,and happiness is holiness at the full.Happiness is nothing but the quintessence of holiness."

According to Matthew Henry ( 1662-1714) a celebrated Bible Scholar who saw the same thing. "Those only are happy,truly happy  that are holy,truly holy,"."Goodness and holiness are not only the way to happiness but happiness itself.".The soul's true happiness is no incidental byproduct of holiness.The true happiness is true holiness.

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