Joshua Boyd
God is giving God. He loves therefore He gives. God’s love gives. When we have God’s love in our hearts, we give too. The more we love we walk in, the more we give. The converse is true, no giving, no love.
In what the world calls “the season of giving” let’s let our light of God’s love shine even brighter by giving. This is one of the things that helped the early church stand out from the religions around them—they were selfless and giving. When persecution happened, they grew. When sickness broke out in the Roman empire, Christians ran TO the sick not from them, and the Romans took notice.
Becoming more like Christ means becoming more of a giver. As we discussed two weeks ago, God gave us the gift of repentance; without it we cannot receive another gift of His: the gift of salvation – today’s topic.
Romans 12:3 – “of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power. And gifts of grace and faith lead us to the gift of salvation.”
