Dear All,
‘Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you’ (Luke 6:38).
Sowing & Reaping – Sacrificial Giving
But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
2 Samuel 24:24
In the verse above, David wanted to purchase a piece of land to build an altar for God. When the owner of the land knew David’s intentions, he offered to give David oxen for a burnt sacrifice, as well as threshing implements and the yokes of the oxen for wood at no cost at all. David could have gladly accepted this as an act of generosity but it was never his intention to make a cheap and easy offering to God which cost him nothing. David’s heart was such that he always wanted to honour God with an offering of sacrificial giving.
We can sow into God’s Kingdom and His work through such sacrificial giving. Generous giving and sowing flows out of a Godly and generous heart.
Today let us follow David’s example and learn to give to God sacrificially. When we give God the best, we can expect the best in return. By sowing in faith, we place ourselves in a position of an increasingly great harvest.
Dear Lord,
I thank You that there is no shortage in Your supply to those who trust in You. Today I choose to give to You sacrificially. May every seed of giving bring fruitfulness and a bountiful harvest.
God bless you,
Theo & Manju