They Became Generous
Acts 2:14-21 (MSG)
“All the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had. They sold their property and possessions and shared the money with those in need”
Acts 2:44-45 (NLT)
Pastor’s Blog
When God makes you generous, you know that something significant has happened. Somehow the needs of others became more important to the first believers than their own wants. They sacrificed monetarily and materially. They did with less. Nothing was off limits. They actually went so far as to divest themselves of things we would call essential in favor of choosing to invest in others.
Divestment in favor of investment. Doing with less in “my kingdom” so that God’s Kingdom could expand. And I suspect that in their world the economy was no more conducive to sacrificial generosity than is ours today in the Fall of 2010.
Ever since I first learned of God’s desire to make us generous I have thought that the most important “benchmark” of my faith is how much money I give away relative to how much I earn or am given. I suspect that if you want to judge how much you trust God one of the most central places for you to look is in your checkbook and Visa statement.
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