Giving like Christ does!

Does giving something away for free come easy to you? It is not something that I am always comfortable with. This idea came into my head a few weeks ago when our church was challenged to give money away to someone just to bless a life! We were challenged to pray to God that He would reveal a person in our life that could use the money, give it to that person, and tell them that Christ wants to bless their life through this gift. It sounded so easy when our pastor was talking about it that Sunday morning. Here is the problem, giving something away means giving away control to someone else. I found myself wanting to know what exactly that person was going to do with the gift that I had given them. It was a strange feeling that I had to deal with, was this person going to use the money in a proper way? Would this person use the money the best way I felt they should use it? If you haven’t picked up on what I am going to talk about yet, let me help you. When you give something away, you haven’t truly given it away until you can release yourself from the worry that follows the action of passing hands! I know it will be hard for you to understand this because I am so wise and all “sarcasm”, but God knows more than I do. God knows the future and can see past worries and anxieties. The money we were challenged to give away did not belong to us in the first place, Gods money will be used how God chooses for it to be used.

May 3rd Capstone Community church will participate in a Giveaway Day for its community. Everyone is encouraged to bring things from their homes to give away to needy people in the community. Once again this idea of freely giving will be put to the test. As people come and take things that are to be given away, what will our reaction be? To truly give is to give with a cheerful heart, not to wonder how many things this certain person has already taken. Remember God is in control, items will go where they need to go, one way or another! To end this blog, I want to share this scripture passage with you.

2 CORINTHIANS 9: 7 “Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

God has revealed to me that a cheerful giver is one that can give freely, without fear or anxiety of what will happen or been done with that gift. God desires a cheerful giver, so I challenge Capstone Community Church to rise up and meet this desire of God!