Anyone in our world who devotes his whole life to seeking heaven will be like Reepicheep. (CS Lewis, Letters to Children)
In the CS Lewis fantasy The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, when presented with an opportunity to enjoy a daily king’s feast and stay back from the risk and peril of continuing on to the “World’s End,”  Reepicheep replies:
“My own plans are made.  While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. when she fails me, I paddle  east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east …

Proverbs 3:27   Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
The hebrew word for “to whom it is due” is actually “from its owners.”   I have heard it said that ancient and traditional cultures considered one’s obligation to helping his neighbor as obligatory and deserved.   In our western/individualistic culture, we may tend to struggle getting a handle on this sense of the right due our neighbor.
In this verse, there is a sense of injustice  (Lev. 19.13) done when …

It is evident by both Scripture and reason, that God is infinitely, unchangeably, and independently glorious and happy; that he cannot be profited by, or receive anything from, the creature;  or be the subject of any sufferings, or diminution of his glory and felicity, from any other being. Jonathan Edwards, The End for Which God Created the World
Infinitely, unchangeably, and independently glorious and happy!  AND he cannot be profited by OR receive anything from, the creature.
Remember this, that God IS happy, all the time… because His will is always …

A minimum of eight of my close brothers in Christ are without work right now.   Yesterday, my son Stephen brought up this topic.     He asked the question, “How do you balance the responsibility of saving for my potential future  (needs)  with giving to others’ present needs.”  This is a classic question we all ask ourselves.  How do we balance our “responsibility” to take care of our present and future needs with the biblical mandate to assist others in their present need?
I know of others who read books by financial …

I was reminded of this quote from CS Lewis.

In self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.  For the Eternal Word also gives Himself in sacrifice; and that not only on Calvary. For when he was crucified, He “did that in the wild weather of His outlying provinces which he had done at home in glory and gladness.”  From before the foundation of the world He surrenders begotten Deity back to begetting Deity in obedience. and as the Son glorifies …