Psalms 40:10 · World English Bible
I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
There is a quieter fault than lying, which is keeping a good thing to oneself, hoarding the mercy received as a private treasure. A heart can grow secretive even about kindness, guarding the story of its rescue the way a miser guards coins.
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There is a quieter fault than lying, which is keeping a good thing to oneself, hoarding the mercy received as a private treasure. A heart can grow secretive even about kindness, guarding the story of its rescue the way a miser guards coins.
The cure is here in the doing: to say it out loud in the crowd, letting the gift move through instead of stopping in one chest. A spring that dams its own water goes stale. God is present as the faithfulness being spoken, passing from the One who gave it, through the grateful voice, into the whole gathered room.
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What good thing have I been keeping to myself, and who should hear it?
Water benefits everything because it does not hold itself back, and its goodness lies in moving on rather than pooling. What is kept for itself goes stagnant.
The sages said a man who has learned and does not pass it on withholds kindness, since the teaching was given to him to hand on. The receiving is completed by the giving.
Krishna says the one who takes the gifts of the world and gives nothing back is a thief, while action offered outward keeps the whole turning. What is held for oneself alone is taken, not received.
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