Category: Giving

Our giving may be the most obvious way in which we lay up treasure in heaven, investing our prosperity in the kingdom of our hope by providing money bags which do not grow old, a treasure that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Luke 12:33-34). This is our Jubilee, not just every fifty years, but every first day of the week and every day in between–a simpler, selfless life.

It takes a commitment of Biblical proportions to be pleasing to God. But those who make it secure for themselves a crown of righteousness, “which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to [us] on that Day” (2 Timothy 4:8).

Is there anyone who does not know it’s wrong to steal? Yes! Everyone can be fooled into thinking something is okay that is actually stealing. It is a serious matter and a real temptation and danger for Christians in any age.

As in all acts of worship to God, our service in this must be rendered in “spirit and in truth” (cf. John 4:24). We must examine our hearts, and give ourselves first, that our liberality will commend us to God. In so doing, as it was with the Philippians, God “shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19).