I read this post from HTB / Nicky Gumble’s Bible In One Year program and thought I
would share. It talks about why we are called to be generous. If you are
reading this and you think that you have no extra money to give to others
because of your own financial need, that may well be the case, but it also may
not. You never know what/how much people need and what seems insignificant to
you might mean the whole world to them! There are also other ways of giving
generously like giving away possessions or giving of your own time (possibly
the most important form of generosity).
I hope this challenges you and provokes
you to thinking about how you can show generosity to others.
Blessings!
Ronell x
Mother Teresa
once gave an interview to Hello! magazine. She was asked the
question, ‘Is it only the affluent who give?’
She replied, ‘No,
even the poorest of the poor give. The other day a very poor beggar came
up to me and said, “Everyone gives to you and I also want to give you twenty
paisa” – which is about two pence. I thought to myself, what do I do?
If I take it he won’t have anything to eat, but if I don’t take it I would hurt
him so much. So I took, and he was so happy because he had given to
Mother Teresa of Calcutta to help the poor. Giving cleans the heart and
helps you get closer to God. You get so much back in return.’
Generosity is not
just a nice character trait that people have. It is right at the heart of
what our faith is all about. C.S. Lewis defined Christianity as ‘a kind
of giving’. God has poured out his generosity to us in Jesus (John 3:16),
and we are called to respond in faith and generosity to others. Each of
the passages today is about blessings and curses. The key to blessing is
generosity.
To read the detailed post, which expands on the
three points above, go to http://acs.alpha.org/bioy/commentary/460
.
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