Give In Order To Receive!

‘but this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.  So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver’ (2 Cor 9:6-7).

This is another ‘Higher Spiritual Law’ in God’s Kingdom.  God commanded us to ‘Give’.  But it is a matter of heart too because your giving is measured on the basis of your relationship with the ‘Selfless Giver’.  God gave His best, His Son Jesus Christ to the dying world!  Jesus said, ‘give and it will be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom.  For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you’ (Luke 6:38).

God relate your giving with your heart.  In the Bible we read a beautiful story to illustrate this happened in the time of Jesus.  ‘and He (Jesus) looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites.  So He said, ‘truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had’(Luke 21: 1-4).  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 

Giving is a nature of God! ‘Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so (since we are the partakers of His nature).  Also do not say to your neighbor, ‘go and come back and tomorrow I will give it.’ when you have it with you’ (Prov 3:27,28).  ‘…Our Heavenly Father lavishly let His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.  Jesus said: ‘therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect’(Mat 5: 45,48).

We are not of this world in order to function to the superficial system of this world.  God’s Kingdom functions by ‘Higher Spiritual Laws’.  God supplies all our need according to His Riches In Glory not according to our bank balance or the limited earthly resources.  Giving is a divine command of God as well as a Higher Spiritual Law.  Walk in it and you will be catapulted to a realm of ‘super-abundance’. ‘as it is written, ‘He who gathered much had nothing left over and he who gathered little had no lack’ (2 Cor 8:15).

Prayer :  Dear Heavenly Father, You did not spare Your Own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall You not with Him also freely give us all things?  Thank You Father for Your selfless loving nature!  We are privileged to be partakers of Your nature and all that Christ has purchased on the cross for us.  We walk in abundance as we give selflessly.  In Jesus Name Amen.

Further study:  2 Cor 8:9; 9:8; Prov 10:22; Prov 11: 24-26