28/09/2024
Taken for granted.
We are all in desperate need of YHVH’s Kingdom which will accomplish the conditions that mankind is so in need of.
In today’s society there are many people who are in desperate need of help, but, sadly, mankind is incapable of bringing permanent lasting relief.
Give without thought of getting anything back and you will be rewarded in Heaven.
Matthew 5:42:
“Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.”
Sacrificial, purposeful giving to those in need is blessed by YHVH who has given one all that He has to begin with and then trusting in His providence that He will continue to provide for His children is a blessing.
Granted is a request for something you wish to have, but is given.
When someone says "don't take it for granted," they are advising you to appreciate and value something rather than assuming it will always be there or that it will always be the same.
There is a saying : you don’t know what you have got until it’s gone.
This phrase often applies to relationships, opportunities, or aspects of life that are easy to overlook or underestimate. The underlying message is to recognize the importance of what you have and to be mindful, as these things can change or be lost if not appreciated.
The truth is you knew exactly what you had , but you just did not think you were going to lose it.Don’t take people for granted , no matter how much they love you , everyone has their limit of being unappreciated , people get tired eventually. we are given all chances , you never know when the last chance may be.
Never take someone for granted, hold every person close to your heart because you might wake up one day and realize that you’ve lost a diamond while you were too busy collecting stones.
Learn to appreciate what you have , before it’s no longer with you . Appreciate your life. Be more grateful. Look at life as a gift and the blessings that is surrounding you.
There's a beggar, there's a homeless, there's a people without family, there is the sick, the dying people, the poor and if you're not one of these, you should be grateful.
Always be grateful for your life and that's how you wont take your life for granted. If you're grateful for your family and friends, you will appreciate the smaller things as added value to you. If you are greatful for a healthy body don't defile it with something that is not a blessing. In other words you should love the body YHVH has given you because His spirit dwells in it. Love YHVH your God and love yourself so that you know how to express the same love to others.
Appreciate your body, soul, and mind. Some people take their life for granted when they didn't think good enough and follow their emotions. Life is too good to be waste. While you're still breathing . Appreciate your life and dont take a split second of life for granted
Yeshua HaMashiach is the Righteousness of YHVH.
Psalms 37:21
The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously
Thankfully, YHVH does offer grace and forgiveness to every truly repentant person. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Before we continue, let us pause for a moment reflecting back at our own life. How many times have we prayed, asked for forgiveness, and straight thereafter just moved on with life as if forgiveness was due as a right, always available and expected? The question is; have we been guilty of taking forgiveness for granted?.
This should be an eye opener when we read this Scripture passage about Israel.
Psalm 78:40
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness yes, they hurt His feelings in the desert!
Individuals should not take sin lightly just because forgiveness is gracefully offered by YHVH. It’s freely given to us, but like every free lunch you’ve ever had, somebody worked for it and paid for it.
Yeshua HaMashiach came into the world, not earning silver or gold, nor thrived on becoming rich, but what he had, he surely gave. The work he has done are not measured by earning money but based on giving life as a gift. Therefore his life was in exchange for all our sins. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
When Lazarus was dead? Yeshua burst into tears. (John 11:35)
When he healed a crippled man on the Sabbath? “And looking around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardness of their hearts, he says to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.” (Mark 3:5)
When his hometown rejected him? “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they were offended by him.” (Mark 6:3)
When he was taken to the high priest’s house after his arrest? “And the men who held Yeshua mocked him, and beat him.And they blindfolded him and asked him, saying, “Prophesy! Who is he who struck you?” And they spoke many other things against him, insulting him.” (Luke 22:63-65)
When he prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane? “And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying and saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”” (Matthew 26:39)
Yeshua HaMashiach felt a wide range of emotions during his ministry and there’s absolutely no reason to think that he doesn’t still feel emotions today. The same is true for YHVH our loving Father. YHVH forgive mankind’s sins. Yeshua was the sacrificial lamb provided by YHVH, so that all human opportunity for forgiveness, salvation, and life in the age to come.
Often people can not "make ends meet", or they have no idea how they can repay their debt. That feeling of guilt and having to owe someone is working on emotional feelings.
Matthew 18:23–35 is about a king settling accounts with his servants. A servant who owes him ten thousand bags of gold breaks down and promises to try everything to pay him back.
The king mercifully cancels the debt. The servant, however, meets a fellow servant who owes him a hundred silver coins. In stead of showing mercy the way his king had, he chokes the fellow servant and has him thrown in jail. The king then got very angry with the servant and threw him in jail as well, until he paid everything back.
Matthew 18:35
“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”
Yeshua told the parable of the servant who owed his master money but he couldn't repay. Yeshua said the master had compassion on his servant because he begged for mercy, so the debt was cancelled. This same servant had a fellow servant who owed him money but he refused to show him mercy.
The conclusion is the servant was given over to tormentors because he refused to forgive his brother's debt even as his debt was forgiven.
Matthew 26:28
This is my blood, and with it YHVH makes His agreement with you. It will be poured out, so that many people will have their sins forgiven
This is the kind of response Yeshua really wants us to have towards our fellow brethren, to forgive them their debts.
However there is the other side of lending money, and how such should be treated. In the Tanakh YHVH made it clear that we should owe no man nothing and that all debts should be repayed.
Exodus 22:14
If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, he must make resitution.
The Apostle Paul puts it this way in Romans 13:8: “Owe no man any thing, but to love another.”
From a legal perspective anyone who refuses to pay back monies they've borrowed has committed fraud. In 1 Corinthians 6. The Apostle Paul speaking to the believers in the Corinthian church who had a dispute among them, rebuked them them sharply. His words were, “Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? Instead you yourselves defraud and do wrong and you do this to your brothers.”
In this situation because of the context Paul's recommendation was that the offended accept the offence for sake of not shaming the people before pagans. This scripture is clear, it does not mean that we can't pursue getting back our monies from a legal perspective.
Individuals chooses rationally who to assist according to one’s means or needs.
Acts 20:35;
“…..there is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving"
Some may think kindness is the inability to refuse another's request regarding any given circumstance.
Exodus 22:25
“If you lend money to anyone poor of my people, someone who is dwelling with you, you must not become a moneylender to him. You must not charge him interest”.
It is particularly dangerous to take YHVH and His purpose for us for granted. We take many things for granted. We think we can eat whatever we want and that somehow our body will survive. We can take for granted that we are going to wake up tomorrow. To "take for granted" means to be complacent or neglectful.To be neglectful is to be evasive, to avoid, dodge, escape, and it means to be indifferent, disinterested, and to be insensibl or to have insensibility.
Deuteronomy 15: 7,8
"If one of your brothers becomes poor among you in one of your cities of the land that YHVH your God is giving you, do not harden your heart or be tight fi**ed toward your poor brother. For you should generously open your your hand to him and by all means lend whatever he needs or is lacking"
Yeshua payed our debt, he paid for our sins on the Cross, because mankind couldn’t ‘repay’ YHVH for everything it had done wrong. Moreover, the Old Testament shows people never really seem to learn from their mistakes, stressing the necessity of Yeshua’s passion: it cleared the debts of every sinner.
Jeremiah 10:23
“I well know, O YHVH, that man’s way does not belong to him. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step”.
The point of Matthew 5:42 is that our giving should not be based on whether or not we think the person deserves our help, or whether or not we think they will pay us back. It should be based on their real need. We give to the one who asks, but when they take matters for granted we become reluctant to continually fall in the same pattern.
Lend' means to give something to someone to be used for a period of time and then returned.
'Borrow' means to take and use something that belongs to someone else for a period of time and then return it. The person lending something owns it and is letting someone else use it.
If this were the only verse in the Scripture, we might feel compelled to give to everyone who ask us to and that would actually contradict other parts of scripture. We need to be both shrewd and generous at the same time. We need to be wise with our money, but at the same time generous with our money. This requires discernment.
This verse as speaking to the tendency we all have of giving to get in return.
It is like when Yeshua said in Luke 14:12–Then Yeshua said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbours; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Be blessed and stay blessed!
