Life Capsule for Today Date 04/02/2024
Theme: Biblical Giving (3)
Text: Prov 11:25
25 The generous soul will be made rich, And he who waters will also be watered himself. NKJV
Topic: Giving as unto the lord
Today’s Reading: Col 3:23-25
23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; 24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons. KJV
Words of the Ministry:
Today we proceed to another important aspect and that is what our mind set should be when we give, our attitude towards the receiver. I would be looking at our expectation from who we gave as against the reality in most cases. I have had reasons to pacify certain persons who gave and eventually the giving led to animosity between both parties I.e the giver and the receiver. By nature, man expects some level of gratitude at its least when they give. When someone gives a gift sacrificially, they would expect a thank you from the receiver which I don’t think is bad but most times some of the persons that receive such assistance don’t even bother to acknowledge it, while some even get angry saying the giver has humiliated them by rendering such assistance or that such assistance is far below their expectation. So we see some ingratitude and sense of entitlement from the receiver.
The attitude of the receiver may discourage us from giving to another person or the same person but we need to firstly realize that even what we gave was not by our power but the grace of God, secondly when we give according to the leading of the Spirit, the devil wants to make us regret and may try to do that by the ingratitude of the receiver to cause hatred, malice, slander and eventually sin. The third and the most important point is that every proper giving should be seen as to the Lord himself, in Matt 25:35-40 “35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. KJV.
Whenever we give to the Lord, render a sacrifice, help someone in need or even sow a seed in the local assembly, we must see it as a sacrifice unto the Lord and the Lord that sees in secret would reward you openly (Mat 6.2). That further goes to show that it’s not necessary you sound a trumpet informing everyone you gave or rendered assistance. Many are of the attitude of sharing God’s glory by saying if not me a particular challenge would have remained in someone’s life, Dear saint, see the giving as an opportunity as God could have used any other person. As for some believers that are ungrateful, you must know that God hates such attitude and it certainly would close doors of further assistance. In closing, I like to state that our attitude when we are the giver and when we are the receiver is to probe our heart to know to what extent we are transformed into his likeness, to what extent we have been crucified and to what extent the holy Spirit is leading us, may God grant us light.
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