“Send these people away to buy something to eat.”
“You give them something to eat yourselves.”
Matthew 14:13-21
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“Kapag ayaw maraming dahilan. Kapag gusto maraming paraan.”
This is quite true. Even good people like priests and nuns do a lot charity because somehow they get some benefit from it. However, if things become inconvenient for them, they hesitate to move even an inch.
This is what the apostles exhibited when they advised Jesus just to send the people away instead of giving them something to eat. But Jesus answered them otherwise.
It might hurt us a bit or even a lot, but if it is what God wants then God will make a way.
Many times we have to do many troublesome things and be told to give till it hurts. The pain we feel then signals that we are doing what we do not want. But definitely it is what God wants.
Listen to Mother Teresa of Calcutta as she says “Give till it no longer hurts”.