It’s Friday…God Has A Very Generous Heart

Christmas time is here. Imagine one of your good friends suddenly revealing that he secretly inherited hundreds of millions of dollars a few weeks ago. Then, imagine him giving you a million dollars this Christmas. Just because he likes you and wants to share his wealth with you. To him, the gift was a drop in the bucket, hardly making a dent in his wealth. Now, suppose the next time you went out to lunch together, you forgot your wallet and he had to pay. Can you imagine how irrational it would be if he became outraged at having to pay for lunch? Is a person who gave you a million dollars the type to get angry over pocket change?

That’s pretty easy to answer, isn’t it? Even if you have no wealthy friends, you probably can’t envision one being generous with a lot and stingy with a little. Generous hearts don’t work that way. And our God Has A Very Generous Heart.

But we sometimes approach Him more as a stingy Lord than a generous Father. We feel like we are twisting His arm when we pray, not realizing that the length and intensity of some of our prayers are designed to draw us closer to Him. The answers we seek are never withheld because God is reluctant. He is a generous Friend and Father who would give us the world.

“He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all – how will He not also, along with Him, generously give us all things?”  (Romans 8:32)

Maybe understanding that is the first step in getting answered prayers. If we pray expecting Him to be a hard Master, we may find a hard Master. But if we pray expecting an extravagant Giver, we may find an extravagant Giver. After all, Jesus did say that we would receive according to our faith, and that without it, it is impossible to please God. If we feel that we have to twist God’s arm, maybe it’s because we believed that we would have to.

God has graciously given us all things – His Kingdom and so much more. Let’s believe that, and we’ll see it more often.

Have a rewarding weekend. Make it better by worshiping The LORD with those who know personally how generous He is and they in turn are generous in giving all things to Him.

All For Jesus – Nothing More, Nothing Less, Nothing Else.

“He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, The King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see, to Him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.” (1 Timothy 6:15b-16)