DEVOTIONAL
Are you going through a tough financially time right now? Do you find it hard to give the way you want without feeling like you are putting yourself into a deeper deficit? When it come to giving, whether time or resources, is your focus mainly on yourself and not others?
How about that homeless man you always see in front of your job with the cardboard sign. Do you avoid him in the hopes that he won’t ask you for any money because you feel a sense of lack in your own life?
Luke 6:38 says: “Give and you shall receive. Your gift will return to you in full – pressed down, shaken together, to make room for more, running over and poured into your lap.”
The idea here is that when you give genuinely and cheerfully (2 Corinthians 9:7) from your heart, regardless of what your current situation is, God will make sure that it is returned to you in a bigger way and at His perfect time. He wants you to put your total trust in Him so that He can show you just how much He loves and cares for you. This not only applies to money, but also being generous in your words, actions and time.
Before starting today’s meditation, I would like for you to conduct a little experiment. Take your hand and make a really tight fist. Keep it clenched! Now get a friend or family member to try pry your fist open, but continue to keep it clenched and unyielding. Could anything get in or out? Be honest with yourself in this moment. What did you discover that happened?
Cultivating Generosity
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