Obey God in Giving

"All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the voice of the LORD your God."(Deuteronomy 28:2)

“The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.”(Deuteronomy 28:8) 

According to these passages, obedience to God results in blessing.  It appears that blessing will chase us and even overtake us when we obey him.  Since God’s principles are eternal, they never change.  Passages like these are “button pushers” that God uses as incentives for us.  When I read these passages, they make me want to test them, to see if they will be operative in my own life.  God wants us to try them in faith, believing that he will fulfill his promises in response to our obedience. Our giving is always an act of obedience.  We respond to the Holy Spirit’s direction.

There is a world of opportunity out there for giving to the various interests of God.  We live in a desperate and dying world, and we as believers are compelled to do something about it.  There are as many ways to do this as there are people in the world.  Part of the transformation process for us as believers is that we move from being self-centered to being God-centered.  We must replace the consumption mentality that is so prevalent in our culture to a giving mentality that is often misunderstood.      

 
Heart Deposit: 
Have you made the great discovery of the blessing of giving?  What opportunities has God placed in front of you for giving?  What blessing has come to you as you have responded to God’s direction?