Living a Generous Life
Do you believe you have enough? Do you think there is an abundance, or do you think that there is scarcity? Do you live a generous life?
Followers of Jesus are called to be a people of abundance, recognizing all that we have comes from God. And God supplies generously for his people. God blesses us to be a blessing. We are called to live generous lives.
In his final speech to the Israelites, Moses charged the people to live generous lives, saying, “If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.” (Deuteronomy 15:7-8, ESV).
God commanded his people to see the need around them, and to meet the need around them, by living generous lives. Generosity begins with a soft and open heart, and an open hand.
When we encounter needs around us, we should seek to help with the resources that have been given to us. Like the Israelites, we have inherited an abundance from God, and we have benefited greatly from the work of our hands.
We live in a time of abundance and we possess so much blessing. God gives us this blessing to be a blessing and to live generous lives.
May we live generous lives as we pour out blessings on those around us from the abundance that God has given us.
A Collect for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, (Proper 8): “O God, your never-failing providence sets in order all things both in heaven and on earth: Put away from us all hurtful things, and give us those things that are profitable for us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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