When my classmate offered me tamarind sweets, I refused taking because I’ve just brushed my teeth. On my way home, I was approached for alms and I remembered the sweets that I could have kept for the panhandlers. I believe that receiving per se cheers up the heart of the giver for it is an expression of gratefulness of the gesture. Another concrete illustration is dining out with friends where it is not about the food eaten that matters but the fellowship shared and the memory of it to keep.
So long that which is offered would not lead you into sin, take it. Jesus offers forgiveness and eternal life indiscriminately when He died on the cross to pay for the wages of sin which is death. Acceptance of the gift of salvation is not for God but for men. It is a gift and there is no way we can earn it but by grace.
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