GIVING

May 25, 2014

One of the things I have seen is that we live in a generation where kingdom giving has been generally termed as a way by which men of God get richer and people of God get poorer. For the ordinary man, this might be true, but for a believer of Christ, this is so untrue because He knows he is obeying the instruction of the Lord and there is always a reward.

In the book of 2 Kings 3, the king of Judah, king of Edom and king of Israel arose to fight the Moabites. When Elisha was asked if the battle was going to be a good one, he said in verse 18b that, “He (God) will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.” In order words, it was going to be a cheap battle for them.

However, when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, Bible says in verse 27 that, he sacrificially offered his eldest son that should have reigned after him as a burnt offering to the Lord. Immediately this was done, despite the promise that the land of Moab was going to be delivered into the hand of the Israelites, Bible says there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

We all know what happened to Abraham as a result of accepting to offer and even attempting to offer Isaac as a burnt offering to the Lord. Because of that act of that day, Abraham became the father of all nations. What your wisdom and energy and human connection can never get for you, your offering is capable of getting it for you because you are offering it to the God who has the whole world in His hands.

Don’t let the view of the world disrupt your view of the word of God. Always remember that whatever you give unto the Lord, you get a return that is pressed down, shaken together and running over. Most importantly, give cheerfully.

Happy Sunday!

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