31/05/2022
Proverbs 11:24 One person gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.
This was interesting to run across today. It is easy to think of so many things as being limited if we may describe them to be. Such as resources, time, sometimes even love. And yet, in actual practice, often hoarding (as the verse says) tends to make us poorer. 😩
In modern society we might blame it on inflation, but in the gospel perhaps we can see that it is more than that. Scattering kindness and goodness doesn't leave us with nothing, in fact, we are enriched the more that we give. As we care for others, God will ensure that we are cared for. That which we give, will always come back to us. God asks us to treat others as we desire to be treated and it is true that all of us desires others to treat us generously. To help us when we're in need financially, physically, spiritually, emotionally. The secret to our much awaited breakthrough is to obey what the word of God tells us. 🙌
Verse to ponder: Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to 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.”
