Proverbs 11:24
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
What is dispersed from our personal universe has a way of returning to us, if not in this life, in the next. Whether rich or poor giving is a stock each one of us can invest in. Giving had nothing to do with having. Sometimes, the rich practice their avarice by giving a lot of money; it makes them feel absolved for not giving of their time and person. Parents tend to do that too. They give money to their kids to replace giving personal attention and involvement. Some also have the same attitude with God; they give of their money to the local Church mission or social program in order to avoid giving their heart to the Lord so He could control their lives.
Yahweh is God; He sees beyond our smokescreen of hypocrisy and into the true motives of our hearts. Life tends to have a boomerang effect. Like spitting in the wind, we can always retrace what it dishes out to us to what we sent. We reap what we sow, and receive dividends from the very elements of our investments. What have we sown? What have we invested in life? Indifference, selfishness, hypocrisy, have we kept people and God at bay and away from us? Life then has nothing more to give to us than what we invested in it , and God certainly can be no closer than the distance we put between Him and us.
Let us give from ourselves, unafraid of being stripped from what belongs to God in the first place. If ‘all’ is our sole measly wealth, so be it. May it go on the altar of our God. The sweet t smelling of this complete burnt offering will be pleasing unto God, and pave the distance to the joy of partaking of His presence in the abundance of a joyful and festive peace offering.
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
What is dispersed from our personal universe has a way of returning to us, if not in this life, in the next. Whether rich or poor giving is a stock each one of us can invest in. Giving had nothing to do with having. Sometimes, the rich practice their avarice by giving a lot of money; it makes them feel absolved for not giving of their time and person. Parents tend to do that too. They give money to their kids to replace giving personal attention and involvement. Some also have the same attitude with God; they give of their money to the local Church mission or social program in order to avoid giving their heart to the Lord so He could control their lives.
Yahweh is God; He sees beyond our smokescreen of hypocrisy and into the true motives of our hearts. Life tends to have a boomerang effect. Like spitting in the wind, we can always retrace what it dishes out to us to what we sent. We reap what we sow, and receive dividends from the very elements of our investments. What have we sown? What have we invested in life? Indifference, selfishness, hypocrisy, have we kept people and God at bay and away from us? Life then has nothing more to give to us than what we invested in it , and God certainly can be no closer than the distance we put between Him and us.
Let us give from ourselves, unafraid of being stripped from what belongs to God in the first place. If ‘all’ is our sole measly wealth, so be it. May it go on the altar of our God. The sweet t smelling of this complete burnt offering will be pleasing unto God, and pave the distance to the joy of partaking of His presence in the abundance of a joyful and festive peace offering.
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