The Generous

A generous person will be blessed for he shares his food with the poor.Proverbs 22:9

There are many proverbs about the blessing of the generous along with warnings about not eating the bread of a stingy person.

Have you even been associated with a stingy person? I have! You feel as if you will choke on what they offer you to eat. Theirs words encourage you to eat but their eyes say a different message and you can't wait to leave.

A generous person will give you their last morsel trusting the Lord for more. They do not withhold thinking, 'this could be my last so I will withold', rather they trust that as they give more will follow. In fact you rarely know it is their last.

Many struggle with giving for they cannot trust the Lord to supply the more and therefore do not receive the more anyway. It is a catch 22 situation. The same could be said about stepping out in faith believing that God will provide continually.

The ways of God are hidden from the foolish, the stingy, the faithless. They are only found in stepping out in faith trusting Him to supply. Amen!