Blue  v9-10 Lev Ch 19
Spanish Olive Plantation


When you reap the harvest (get your paycheck) of your land (in the areas assigned to you), do not reap to the very edges of your field (do not spend every last cent) or gather the gleanings of your harvest (don't go back over it again and again just to see what else you can get).  Do not go over your vineyard a second time (spoken twice=confirmation; do not go back over it again and again just to see what else you can get.  When something is spoken twice God considers the matter established and obedience is a good idea) or pick up the grapes (that which brings life in any way, shape, or form) that have fallen (once you've shared something with someone don't begin to feel that you wish you hadn't or wish you could go back and do something else a different way... Don't, just leave it alone).  Leave them for the poor and the alien (poor isn't isolated to someone without enough money, rich can be poor when character is low, the inner man is isolated, the spirit is controlling and superior.  The alien will be an unfamilar way or someone you don't know very well.  When you share something with somone you don't know real well don't go back over the event only to regret your decision.  Say you just gave up your parking spot to let the unfamiliar person be shown respect, then afterward see this same person disrespect an elderly lady by not letting her get her shopping cart first and you see how rude is the behavior.  Don't regret your kindness wishing you'd never been nice in the first place.  Don't stop sharing with poor behavior minded people just because they are obviously poor in word, action, or deeds.  Allow your abundance to reach out to touch your idea of the yucky people too. 

God's S-(un, on) shines on the just and the unjust.  This way of thinking that i'm only going to give into good ground is false.  If this was truth then God Himself could not have died for our sin because we were all rotten-to-the-core ground and HE could not have put His Seed into our fallen flesh nature to save us if He first had to wait until somebody got good enough.  This is false thinking to think we only give to people and ministries that are so called "good ground."  Besides, this way of thinking will cause comparison to be strengthened and comparison only belittles our individual value right before it refuses to give us any love that could have been used to make us feel secure.  Comparison devalues us.  It separates us, it does not unify.  If comparison is allowed to dictate who is good ground and who is bad ground then works will increase instead of love because now i must work harder to be better so you'll love me and want to help me but the problem is that all this will be accomplished through the fear of losing something instead of the peace of giving or gaining something.  Comparison will begin to create stero-typing, which of course we do because we need something to control, we like control, we like thinking we know all about you and what you're like, and how to keep you under our thumb because this way, should something happen, i think i can protect myself from you.  This is terrible.  There's no faith in it.  Because stero-typing, when used incorrectly, becomes the area of division, not definition.  It's ok to belong to a group, but to act like i can't help yours because you're bad ground and don't produce enough fruit first... what's that?  If i begin to say i won't give to You because you are not good ground, then where or who is the enemy i'm supposed to be loving?  Do i just go help the people who aren't even sick and don't need a physician?  It is wrong to say you're good, you're bad, and this is who i'm going to  help?  When the Holy Spirit shows up like the wind is it by faith that we share with whoever He is asking us to share with without an ulterior motive that seeks only pride story of looking good.  Marilyn Hickey- "Say yuck three times."  Since Jesus isn't ashamed of us, let's just help whoever and not worry about it.  It takes the pressure off just like it did for Lindsay Roberts when God told her to just obey Him because their response is not your responsibility. 

                                          For You Beautiful One