For God's Sake

As [Jesus] went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. (John 9:1-3)

When Jesus healed someone, it was not so that they might become indebted to him. It wasn’t an “I’ll scratch my back, you scratch mine,” arrangement. Instead, it was purely a gift for the glory of God. Healing in Scripture was intended to free up the one healed to get closer to God, to give praise and honor to the Lord.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery wrote this –

“Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.”

When we give what we have to give, do we do it for our own sake or for God’s?