SERIES: THE GIFT OF GIVING HOW TO RECEIVE! A lot of people want - TopicsExpress



          

SERIES: THE GIFT OF GIVING HOW TO RECEIVE! A lot of people want to be on the receiving side and this is really no sin or crime at all, in fact I also love to receive a pleasant gift as often as possible, however, I have come to discover that there are certain infallible principles that govern life itself e.g. “seed time and harvest shall not cease” (Gen 8:2), as long as there is seed in the ground a harvest awaits, this is a universal law of nature. Also when it comes to receiving, the only guarantee that one will receive is that one has given. I find no better illustration to emphasize this truth than the story of a blind beggar who sat beside a road, fingering the rice in his little bowl. Wearing only a loin cloth, he sat in poverty beside a road that stretched into nowhere both ways. The scarce travellers occasionally gave him a little rice. One day he heard the thunder of a chariot in the distance. It was the grand entourage of the maharajah. This was a moment that had never come before. Surely the great one would stop and give him baskets of rice. Indeed, the golden chariot of the maharajah stopped before the poor beggar. The great one stepped down and the beggar fell before him. Then the sky seemed to fall in. "Give me your rice," said the great one. A fearful, hateful, scowl masked the face of the beggar. He reached into his bowl and thrust one grain of rice toward the maharajah. "Is that all?" said the great one. The beggar spat on the ground, cursed, and threw him one more grain of rice. The great one turned, entered his chariot, and was gone. The beggar—angry, empty, and crushed—fingered the remaining rice he had hoarded in his bowl. He felt something hard, different from the rice. He pulled it out. It was one grain of gold. He poured out his rice, caring nothing for it now. He found one other grain of gold. Had he trusted the great one, he could have had a grain of gold for every grain of rice.Beloved, you could receive by begging or asking a favour but that is dependent on the nature of the person you have asked from, and has no guarantee that you will receive what you have asked but when you give you take it out of the hands of men and into God’s territory and no man can out give God. See how Jesus puts in our wisdom nugget. WISDOM NUGGET: Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." (NIV) Let us pray: Father, help me become a giver in Jesus name.
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:17:20 +0000

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