As we continue to learn about giving let’s put the record straight. We often feel that we should give in order to receive. Yes and Amen to that, you will receive when you give. But there’s far more greater truth and motif in giving.
In the past, this truth has been abused in the body of Christ to an extent where people have been hurt and offended. The problem is that when you use the principle only as a formula to become successful and wealthy, we forget that we are losing the value in being generous.
Now usually the takeaway from such stories is not how generous he was but on how much he received.
There is a value in being generous because giving in itself is a blessing.
2 Corinthians 9:12-13 This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else.
Giving is God’s DNA
Everything that God has created gives. The land gives. The soil gives. The sun gives. The trees give. Man is the only creation that has a problem in giving.
Any financial or economic problem in the world is because man does not give. As long as money is in rotation, the economy is good. The moment hoarding happens, inflation happens and economy goes bad.
We have a problem in giving because of the fear of not having enough. It’s a cycle that we are stuck with.
Won’t give because I might not have…….
I don’t have because I have not given.……
It’s high time that we look at giving as a blessing rather than a formula, a burden or sometime a religious evil. When we give, we are just doing what the heavenly father would expect from his child. Giving is a blessing.
Excerpt from the Sermon Notes of Bro. Samuel V Thomas - Sunday 17th July 2018, Crossway.
Stanley Thomas Isac
Stanley is serving as the Pastor of Crossway Church in New Delhi, he can be reached at stanleytisac@gmail.com
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