Psalm 51:17 The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.
2 Corinthians 9:10 For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you.
The first response to meeting Jesus is a broken and repentant heart.
One look at Him will reveal the true state of our lives - that we are done for without His sacrifice for us on the Cross.
Out of that repentance flows a response of sharing and giving.
Here we are promised that God will graciously provide enough for us to pass on to others.
"God loves a cheerful giver", we're called not be stingy and grudging as we give.
Giving is a heart thing - it means nothing, in God's eyes, if it's done with ulterior motives.
Matthew 6:1-4 AMPC
Take care not to do your good deeds publicly or before men, in order to be seen by them; otherwise you will have no reward [reserved for and awaiting you] with and from your Father Who is in heaven. Thus, whenever you give to the poor, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites in the synagogues and in the streets like to do, that they may be recognized and honoured and praised by men. Truly I tell you, they have their reward in full already. But when you give to charity, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, So that your deeds of charity may be in secret; and your Father Who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Prayer
Father God, help me to lay down my trumpet and give in secret before You.
2 Corinthians 9:15
Thank God for his Son—His Gift too wonderful for words.
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