The Time to Give

Read II Corinthians 9:6-7

The power in giving. You are what you eat. You reap what you sow. Your child is payback for your childhood. I’ve heard all these phrases, and they are pretty accurate. That is the power of giving. If you never want to receive anything from anyone, never give anything to anyone.
Giving is two-fold. We need to be givers, and we need God to give back to us. There are resources in our life that have been promised to us by the Lord that we have not yet tapped into. Now is not the time for us to shrink back in a corner because some of the promises have not come to pass as yet. It is in the times that we have need, we need to give, to invest more, to sacrifice more.
The concept of investing is interesting. The people who hold stocks do so for a the long haul, knowing that if they are patient, they will see dividends. Those that go in and out of the market don’t often see the same returns.
We are in the time of history when we need to give more than what we need. The more time spent with you children will reciprocate in a stronger relationship with them. The more investment into our spouses, the greater return from that relationship will be found. The more we give to God, the greater our relationship with Him will become.
There is no where in scripture that states that if we give more money, we will reap more money. It does not say that if we give more time, we will receive more time. The concept of giving is found in the principle that if we delight, or invest in, the Lord, He will in turn place in our hearts certain desires that will come to pass. I’d much rather have the desires that He placed in my heart than for God to give me my desires. I want to have his desires come to pass in my life because His are so much better.