“I have showed you all things, how that so laboring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
This verse teaches us that we should be givers, because it is more “blessed to give than to receive.” It is a hard lesson to learn, but it is good lesson and is true. We should seek to be givers. We need to give money. (We might as well start with this one and get it over with.lol) Throughout the Bible we are taught to be generous with our money. The young man that we call the “rich young ruler” was told about the importance of this. He wanted to know how to receive eternal life. Jesus told him that he should sell all that he had, give it to the poor, and he would free himself to really see the need for eternal life. The lesson from this incident is that the man’s money and possessions were keeping him from surrendering himself to the Lord. We should give our money to the Lord’s work and be generous with what is left. Jesus was trying to teach the young man that “it is more blessed to give than to receive.” We will not learn this lesson until we learn to give our money to some causes beyond ourselves. We need to give of ourselves. We not only need to give our money, we also need to give of our time and effort for someone beyond ourselves. This does not mean that we do not need to look out for ourselves; it just means that we keep ourselves from life’s blessings when we fail to give of ourselves. Writing these CouchPotato articles is one way I have of giving of myself. Of course, it is not the only way, but I started this when I could not do anything else because of illness. The Lord taught me that this was how I could give of myself, even if I could not get off of the couch. I can get off of the couch now, but I still feel the need to share in this way. What are you doing to give of yourself? We should give compassion. It is easy to become self-indulgent and uncaring in this “land of plenty” in which we live. We need to not just feel compassion, but we need to also act with compassion. I am sure that the priest and Levite felt sorry for the man that they passed by on the Jericho Road, but their feeling sorry for him did not help him. When the “Good Samaritan” came along, he did not just feel sorry for the man, but he reached out to him with compassion and actually helped him. There is a lot more to being a giver than the three things that I have dealt with, but they are a good place to start. Be a giver! Bro. Joe
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