A Giver

I’ve purposed in my heart to be a giver. It is a foundational tenet to a person’s nature I wanted to make a part of my core belief system.

It is rare that an offering plate goes by me without an addition from my pocket. I try to be the one that covers lunches – gives to mission trips and buys the drink behind me in the Starbucks line. I so firmly believe in the concept of giving that when I feel anything contrary to that – I’ll go do something that’s giving so that I can remind myself what my true nature is. A giver!

But let me say this. I don’t give to get back. No. I seriously don’t.

When that creeps into my thoughts, I immediately remind myself that God holds the scales – it’s my job to be obedient and give. I know that as humans, we are extremely selfish and if we don’t watch it – that selfishness will creep into our giving….thinking that “Well, if I give this, then God will give that.”

I don’t give so that God will give me anything. I give because I represent Him and He is the ultimate giver!

God has been amazingly faithful to Favorite Husband and me.  We are both convinced that it is because we’ve chosen to make giving a lifestyle.  It is not a lifestyle that’s easy by any stretch of the imagination.  Honestly, some days it is a bit of a battle to keep emotions and thoughts in check.  But we both choose to give and release it to Jesus.

We wouldn’t live any other way!