CHRISTMAS IS THE GIVING SEASON
Many call this time of the year the “Giving Season.”
Our Dear Loving Father set the example for our giving when He gave Himself to save us so that we could spend eternity with Him because we are His glorious inheritance. Our Father gave up His glory in Heaven and everything He held dear to become don an earth suit.
FOR GOD SO LOVED THAT HE GAVE
Father God, the “Great I AM,” came to earth to walk as a human being and fully experience our lives. During His thirty-three years on this planet, He lived and breathed as a regular human being. He had the Godhead inside, but He felt what we feel and was tempted at all points as we are but did not sin.
God became the Messiah, which means the One Who Is To Come. Then, at thirty, when He decided the time was right, He was anointed by the Holy Spirit and became the Christ. As the empowered Christ, He did all of His mighty works, proving to the world who He was. Then He paid the price for all of our sins, past, present, and future, by being tortured and crucified. When He breathed His last breath, He proclaimed that His Work was finished and became, once again, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
God’s gracious giving was motivated by His unconditional, uncompromised, unqualified, incomprehensible, infinite, eternal love for you (fill in your name). He didn’t give ten percent. He gave one hundred percent.
Paul, directed by Holy Spirit, wrote a perfect prescription for this type of giving, the giving that blesses our Father:
“The point is this: Whoever sows (gives) sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap (collect/ receive) generously. CHEERFUL GIVER. Let each one give as he has made up his mind and purposed in his heart, not reluctantly or sorrowfully or under compulsion, for God loves; He takes pleasure in and prizes above other things and is unwilling to abandon or do without a cheerful, joyful, “prompt to do it” giver [whose heart is in his giving.”
(2Corinthians 9:6-7)
This teaching from Holy Spirit nails the entire Gospel of Jesus. It is why God gave us free will. God did not want a planet of automatons, robotic slaves that obey him out of fear of not doing so. God desires the free will offerings of our hearts, minds, spirits, and resources.
Paul continues with the promise that God rewards cheerful, prompt-to-do-it givers by multiplying our giving and causing us to walk in all grace. He actually promises us that He will make ALL GRACE abound unto us and MULTIPY OUR SEED SOWN so that we will always have everything we need and that we may abound unto every good work.
Let’s break that promise down a bit. Grace is God’s willingness, ability and power that have done for us those things which we can not or will not do for ourselves. An example of this is Salvation. We can not earn our Salvation. It is a gift from God, not of works lest any man should boast. Now meditate on ALL GRACE ABOUNDING unto you.
Soak in the majesty of this promise from Holy Spirit to the cheerful givers Paul describes:
“He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food WILL SUPPLY AND MULTIPLY YOUR SEED (MONEY) FOR SOWING (GIVING) AND MULTIPLY THE HARVEST OF YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. YOU WILL BE ENRICHED IN EVERY WAY TO BE GENEROUS IN EVERY WAY.”
(2Corinthians 9:10)
Meaning: God gives us the money we have to begin with, and then when we give, He multiplies the money back to us so that we will have more to give and, with that giving, multiply our righteousness.
I love the promise from Jesus about giving. It is as true as His promise of Salvation through belief in Him:
“Give, and IT WILL (not might) be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap (Your finances). Because the measure you use will be measured back to you.“
(Luke 6:38)
What is striking about this declaration is the clear statement that God doesn’t give minimums. God gives abundantly, pressed down, shaken together, and overflowing. He is not a just enough giver.
The measure you use is descriptive of the intents and purposes of your heart when you give. If our heart is overflowing with love in our giving and we give cheerfully and abundantly, our return will overflow with love and abundance.
These promises from God the Father in the person of Jesus and Holy Spirit are just as valid as John 3:16. We can not claim to believe one promise from Jesus while rejecting others.
So if you are a cheerful giver whose heart is genuine and happy about your giving, EXPECT TO RECEIVE WITH THE SAME MEASURE YOU GIVE. Believe and rejoice in the return. That is not greed. It is not self-orientation; it is an act of belief and use of faith.
The promises are just as true if you are a new cheerful giver. You will be amazed about how true and evident they are. Cheerful givers KNOW that they are true from experiential knowledge.
Once, when I was very financially challenged and very depressed and anxious, a Godly man taught me the truth about giving.
I was confused. I believed that I could not afford to give and that if I did give, I would not have. I thought that giving would cause even more poverty.
The man taught me that the opposite was true. I was skeptical at first. Yet, I was determined to believe the scriptures and gave two dollars out of the twenty at my disposal.
The next day, I unexpectedly received two hundred dollars. I gave twenty of that, and two days later, I received an unexpected two thousand dollar commission. I have always loved to give. I was, in fact, a cheerful giver. But giving money to God was something I had never learned to do. Trust me, I have been a cheerful, prompt-to-do-it-giver ever since.
There are other types of giving. We can give the Gospel of “GOOD NEWS OF GREAT JOY WHICH SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE, our time, talent, resources, love, care, mercy, Forgiveness, hope, joy, happiness, our hearts, and our ears, we can give as the wonderful folks of alcoholics anonymous teach, our experience, strength, and hope. Think of other things we can give.
FOR GOD SO LOVED THAT HE GAVE:
Here are a few of the things that God gave to us as Christmas gifts: Himself in the person of Jesus, Eternal Salvation through believing and believing in Him, Holy Spirit, His faith, His peace, His joy and gladness, Forgiveness of all of our sins, past, present, and future, healing of all of our diseases, ALL THINGS that pertain to life and godliness, His power, the ability to speak things into and out of existence, prosperity and the greatest of all of these, HIS LOVE.
(John 3:16-18, John 6:28-29, John 14,15 and 16, 2Peter1:1-4, John 14:27, John 15:11, Psalm 103:1-3 and 12, John 1:29, Hebrews 8:12, Hebrews 10:10-18, Revelation 1:5, Isaiah 53:4-5, John 14:12-14, Mark 11:22, John 10:10, Luke 6:38)
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