GOD LOVES THE CHEERFUL GIVER!

A mother wanted to teach her daughter a moral lesson. She gave the little girl a quarter and a dollar for church. "Put whichever one you want in the collection plate and keep the other for yourself," she told the girl. When they were coming out of church, the mother asked her daughter which amount she had given. "Well," said the little girl, "I was going to give the dollar, but just before the collection the man in the pulpit said that we should all be cheerful givers. I knew I’d be a lot more cheerful if I gave the quarter, so I did."

Are we different from this girl? I wish to re-post a previous one under the title: SOME STRANGE FACTS OF LIFE

Human mind works in very strange ways:  

Ø When we are requested to give Rs. 1000 to the Church, we consider it a great amount; but when we go for shopping or hospitalized, this amount becomes petty.

Ø When we are to spend two hours for worship, we consider it boring; but when we spend hours together before the TV or in Movie Theatre, we have the ‘patience’.

Ø When we are to pray, we find it difficult to get words; but when talking to a friend we can speak fluently for hours.

Ø When we find it very difficult to finish a chapter of the Bible in one sitting; we have no difficulty in reading a novel in one sitting.

Ø When we look for the front seats to enjoy a musical/mimics/ drama program; we look for the back seat in the Church.

Ø When we cannot speak about the goodness of God Almighty; we have no difficulty to gossip and speak ill of others.

Ø When we believe the news and events that we read in the newspapers and periodicals; we cannot take the Biblical truths as factual.

Ø When we aspire to be in Heaven after death; we are not willing to do anything in this world to achieve it.