We often get our hands bitten while we are feeding others.

This literally happened to me when I was a child. I had a puppy that fell into a sewer. As I rescued it and to calm it down, my mom gave me a pill to drop it in the puppy’s mouth. But as my hand came near, the puppy in its delirium, bit my hand. I had to be taken to the hospital to be looked at. Perhaps, that is the reason why I still don’t like to go near a dog even now…

This can also happen in church and its ministries. While we do not expect to be repaid for our service and sacrifice, we, at least, do expect to be appreciated and treated with respect. However, sometimes we are treated exactly the opposite. Our motives are questioned and all our past good deeds are judged differently. Our relationships are severed and disillusionment sets in. We become bitter and end up questioning why we do anything for anyone.

No wonder so many people live only for themselves! It is so much easier to. You, live for others and be prepared to have your heart trampled upon, chewed, out and spat out!

“But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully. Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good.” Ps 38:19-20

What is the remedy? Do it for God and not for people.

“Do not forsake me, O Lord! O my God, be not far from me!
Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!” Ps 38:21-22

PH