Have you ever tried to help and suddenly found out that you
were the one that ended up crying for help?
It could be so annoying to think
that the one that you perceive needs money from you is actually richer than you
by many degrees. It happens all day and the people that seem to need help are
the ones that seemingly do not appreciate the very help they seek.
It will make more sense if I
illustrate deeper.
Imagine you asked someone over,
you have prepared your best dish and given to the fellow in one of your special
casseroles or plates, hoping that you were helping a needy one. The moment the
meal is over, the fellow now tells you that he/she will be taking the plate
home? Did I hear you say what!?
Or
You encounter an accident and
decide to stop and rush the victims to a hospital. After spending like
God-knows-how-long in the hospital getting cards and following the protocols
(for people you do not even know) the victims turn round to ask you to pay the
bills and help them finish the journey they started
Or
You decide to accommodate a
complete stranger because your friend asked your help. You didn’t want to let
him down so you agreed. The stranger then builds his nest in yours and many
nights you come back to sleep, he is already asleep without even considering
who has the mattress or bed and then funny enough, till the semester ends you
have to accommodate a bunkmate that came as a one night help.
Or
You borrow someone your laptop and hoping that
the work that has to be done will be done in a day or two and your computer
will be returned to you, only for you to notice that you have been without your
computer for weeks and the person keeps giving excuses of time to bring it over
or something coming up every now and then
Or
You are fond of letting your
visitors go to your fridge and take drinks and stuff and then one day due to
familiarity or whatever could be, one goes to pick and consume something that
you kept for a special occasion.
Or
You go to honour an out-of-town
wedding, not for the couple but for a friend that asked you to come, then you
see yourself either playing a key role or being a mastermind for a wedding that
was actually planned even without you on the guest list.
Or
You go to the extent of borrowing
a car just to take a good number of your friends out and despite the car you borrowed, you end up being the one to
sponsor their appetites that night and drop them off in their individual houses
before you being to fathom how to return the car and hug your empty pockets.
Or
You decide to join a fellowship,
not because you see a good reason why you should but for the mere fact that you
have to socialize and be somewhere, then from the blues, you are been asked to
lead the fellowship in one engaging capacity or the other.
Or
You go to visit a school mate in
the hospital and your intention of being brief transforms to you being the only
person that has to care for him throughout the day and even have to keep vigil
at night over him, taking note that you never even planned to spend the day.
Or
…I could go on and on and on
What you have read above may
sound like stories or impossibilities but they are life stories that I have
encountered personally.
So many experiences we have in
life are actually beyond our plans and provisions but with a little enlargement
of heart we can overlook a lot and go beyond ourselves.
You never know how much you can
bear until you bear another’s burden. You never can tell how much you can
endure until tested by life circumstances. You never can tell how deep you are
until you are dug.
No matter how bad it gets, no
matter how complex the case is, always remember that what you do for your
fellow man you do for yourself indirectly.
The pressure and demand may be
beyond the man on the outside but it can never be beyond the God on the man’s
inside.
When the pressure rises, switch
mode to “internal” and you will find out that in that mode, nothing is beyond
the man….For greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. selah
