Sharing with your Blessings | IAM GROUP JAPAN

In the Bible, Jesus was at the temple observing people when he noticed how the rich ones give away bills in bundles as an offering to the temple collection. An old lady came with only two denarii with her which she also dropped to the temple's collection box. The people was surprised on how He commended the old lady on how she had given her all to help whatever charities or projects the temple had. I can only imagine the shame the rich people felt when they heard how the old lady who gave little was praised.

I am a member to a loose Christian group called IAM Group Limited who partners with different charities and non-profit organizations and help them raise funds for community and social projects. I have met hundreds of people in this group in my three years as a member. We have the same ideals despite coming from different backgrounds and nationality: helping those less fortunate than we are. These people are no fraud; they really are of good heart. However though, what I have noticed with fellow teenage volunteers is that we have the same practical thinking: that we can only give when we have something ourselves.

No matter how the Bible teaches us to give even when we don't have, our practical thoughts seems to be contradicting those deeds. It really is easier said than done. Living in the most demanding generation we now have, we can only give what cannot be used. Sometimes, it can even be painful parting from unnecessary things because they might also come to use someday. A lot of times, during an offertory in a Catholic mass, I allot a budget which cannot harm my weekly allowance and set it aside for the collection. Reading about how the old lady gave her all despite not having much and how Christ and His disciples have preached from place to place without worries of the future makes me wonder if it can still be possible today.

We go to charity works in Yokohama, Japan, West Africa, and the suburbs of Cambodia and all of them are sponsored. I am sure that if so happens that those trips' expenses be from our own pockets, many of us will surely decline to go. I ask myself now, is my reasoning not legit? Am I not giving my all when I reason that I can't? Does that mean that I cannot join charities when I happen to be less fortunate than I am now? IAM Group Ltd. is a great group that share blessing to the world but I wonder if the members are feeling the same way that I do. The conclusion? It is up to you to decide.

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