Sam Simon is dying from cancer and is giving his fortune away. "He founded his eponymous charity in 2011, an organization that provides food for families in need, spays and neuters cats and dogs for free and trains service dogs to help vets who are hard of hearing. He established the nonprofit entirely with is own funds and the organization does not accept public donations, according tot he charity's website."
I don't know if he is a Christian or not, but the last two paragraph are an amazing lesson for Christians who give money grudgingly, give only the tithe they believe is required of them (if you study the Law of the OT, Jews actually gave away 1/3 of their income, but that's for another time), or don't give at all:
As for what's motivated Simon to give so gernerously, he says that's pretty simple.
"One thing is, I get pleasure from it," he told the Hollywood Reporter. "I love it. I don't feel like it is an obligation."
He gets pleasure from it. "In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remember the words of the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to GIVE than to receive.'" ~Acts 20:35
He doesn't feel it is an obligation. 2 Corinthians 9:7 says, "Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a CHEERFUL giver." ~2 Corinthians 9:7
Is there really anything else to say?
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