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The True Motivation Behind Giving: Love as the Ultimate Guide
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If we are giving lots of things away, it should be because we love to do what pleases our Father, and we love the people who are receiving what we are giving. We’re not doing it with the express objective of obtaining some advantage in some way, or of staving off the “fires of hell”, if that’s the way we view it.
And speaking of fire, this odd thing about delivering up our body to be burned, whether that might be attempting to purify ourselves or whether it might be some form of martyrdom, none of that is important if we aren’t loving. We potentially can be like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego walking through the fire, but if we do that with wrong motives, it doesn’t benefit us and it doesn’t benefit the gospel.
Paul says, love has got to be your primary motivation. And why would he say that? If you boil down the entire 10 Commandments into two commandments, they are these. Love God, and love people. That’s the most important principle.
And so when we are doing good deeds, let us consider our motives. Why are we doing these good deeds? Do we look at them and say, haven’t I been good? Watch out, says Paul. That’s not going to help you. And there is a better way.
