Christian Family Services Ministry

9-15-2023 – A Word to the Wise – I came across a letter from my very wise mother that I would like to share. It was written some fifty years ago, yet still carries a profound message.

It is important whether our mates are able to fulfill our needs. In fact, are we able to receive our needs?

Some never learn to receive. To accept we are incomplete humbles us– to reach out and accept (not take) our needs teaches us humility.

If we have not learned how to receive; humbled ourselves to the point of acceptance –we may well perish in the very presence of it.

The first 12 years of our lives are given almost wholly to receiving—any failure in this pattern must be corrected.

So question yourself. How did you receive? Or did you ever really receive. Every day brought some good gifts or bad gifts—how did you receive them?

Did you feel I want none of these things—they do not fill my needs—I am starving for_______ what?

If you receive them, is it possible, they would have been like a surprise package. Lo, perhaps your need had been hidden inside all the time.

Why does the scripture say, “It is more blessed to give than receive? Remember, if you only read words, they condemn; if you understand, they give life. Christians not understanding, or twisting this scripture will become hard empty starved people. They have nothing to share because long ago, they closed the valve through which they receive.

Jesus was a channel through which God the Father flowed. We can never differ from Jesus. Only be like the same channel—a channel is open at both ends that which is permitted to flow in becomes the fruit as it flows out.