BE A FAITHFUL GIVER Monday – June 28, 2010
“Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the LORD your God has blessed you.” – Deuteronomy 16:17
Mary Crowley, who founded Home Interiors and Gifts, had a deep abiding faith in Jesus Christ. Early in life, she had very little materially. Meals consisted of cereal and milk. She did not have an automobile. But, she and her two children walked faithfully every Sunday to the services at the First Baptist Church of Dallas. Members of the congregation often picked them up and gave them a ride to church when they encountered them along the way. All the while, in those years, she faithfully tithed her meager income to the Lord. In time, her home decorating talents and business mind resulted in exceeding wealth.
When prosperity came she continued her faithful stewardship. She wore around her neck two small gold shovels. One was larger than the other. When people inquired about their meaning she would answer, “The little shovel is mine. I can shovel it out. The big one is God’s. He shovels it in ten times faster.”
The Lord is faithful in giving to us, but are we faithful in giving? Today in prayer, praise the Lord for all that He has given you and seek to be a cheerful giver to His work.
“God loves a cheerful giver. He who gives cheerfully, gives better. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to our neighbor is to accept their gifts with joy. Joy is a net of love in which souls can be caught. We impatiently await God's paradise, but we have in our hands the power to be in paradise right here and now. Being happy with God means this: to love as He loves, to help as He helps, to give as He gives, to serve as He serves.” – Mother Teresa
God’s Word: “Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” – 2 Corinthians 9:6-7
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