There are many times when the reason a person will be helpful is totally selfish and uncaring even though at face value it seems to be selfless and caring. This is an insidious manifestation of evil “masquerading as an angel of light”.
For instance: Giving a person money to afford them a place to sleep so that you don’t have to supply that place and you effectively get away from that person. You have done nothing for their spirit and sent them away with a temporary fix and really have served yourself by being rid of the burden of really caring for that person. But on the outside it looks as if you have really done some great thing. The person is grateful for one night’s rest, the story of how you helped a poor soul shows others how much you are “sacrificing” for the unfortunate and you inflate your own ego thinking that you have actually been of holy service to someone.
This is a great evil and is prevalent in the society of the affluent. Where the “pretty” people wear their money like a glove to keep their hands from getting dirty.
It is a theft of sorts. A sleight of hand, a trick and a manipulation. All in order to be shuck of an uncomfortable and invasive relationship to a person drowning in a sea of lonely need. It’s like cruising in a yacht across the ocean. There is a person flailing out in the water and is thrown a life preserver. But the yacht never stops to pick them out of the water.
There is another dimension to this perversion of help…. “You are welcome” is the twisted response. The receiving of thanks for these false acts of mercy. The so-called benefactor takes well-intended gratitude for a perceived act of love that in fact was never intended to be. This “benefactor “ is lauded as doing some great act of mercy. Some massive move of self-sacrifice. Receiving the praise and puffing up as some great saint. When in fact, they are a self-serving leech, using a cloak of goodness to cover their real darkness. Leaving the mortally wounded with a bandaid and strutting around like some great doctor.
There is however, the true saint. This saint has already suffered, died and is risen in Christ. This one who now sacrificially gives (as Christ did for them) to see a soul saved from whatever malady is tormenting and laying siege to their God-given purpose. To see one delivered from the darkness of death without Christ to the brilliance of life and living in Him. Christ glorified. This saint works behind the scenes. Not really noticed except by those helped. It is God Who created that saint to do that work. So don’t thank the saint, thank God for the saint and the fruit of His Spirit manifesting in the earth. For the bearing down of heaven on the earth, crushing the deeds of darkness but the shining of the Light.
Inevitably, the goodness of the saint will come into public view. To that saint I say be very careful!
Thanks will be given but should be quickly pointed to God The Father Who created that saint for that very purpose. Not in a false humility, but in gratitude for having opportunity and obedience to be a help. The hands and feet of Jesus in the earth. The Word made flesh and dwelling amongst humanity.
To God be the honor, to Christ be the glory and to Holy Spirit be the power loosed in this earth by men and women indwelt and infilled fully by Him, to the overflow of the purpose of God; that none perish and all coming to repentance; all turning from death to life, the living pulling the dying from the depths to life :)
I thank You Lord for such a magnificent purpose. Not only to perform for Your glory, but to be a habitation, an extended land of Your Kingdom where You reign and work to see Your Kingdom ever growing to the all of all for all.
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