“If, indeed, you heard of the stewardship
of the grace of God given to me for you…”
Ephesians 3:2 (LITV)
Selflessness grows in a heart captured by grace. In God’s economy, every dispensation of His wonder and grace to us is to be for the blessing and development of others. Failure to allow His Life to reach out to those around us will bring stagnation and apathy.
God’s purpose in every attribute given is enlarged by the sharing of it with others.
“Blessed are the merciful:
for they shall obtain mercy.”
Matthew 5:7
To be merciful to others is the grandest way to receive more mercy from Him. There is a secret to His resources.
“Give and it shall be given unto you…”
Luke 6:38
The bounties of God in Christ are infinite, yet, in His wisdom, He has established His Kingdom with an economy governed by the selflessness of love.
“Give, and good measure will be given to you, pressed down and shaken together, and running over, they will give into your bosom. For the same measure which you measure, it will be measured back to you.”
Luke 6:38 (LITV)
Carnal men may turn the beauty of God’s provisions into an opportunity to heap upon themselves the “unrighteous mammon,” but to their own destruction. To the pure in heart, His goodness abounds as they discover the joy of growing into His selflessness.
“But unto every one of us is given grace
according to the measure of the gift of Christ.”
Ephesians 4:7
May we allow the magnitude of His generosity to fill our hearts with the same Spirit of grace. All His children have experienced His munificence. There is no end to His supply. Only our unforgiveness, jealousy, envy, and self-seeking can dry up the springs of His amazing flow.
“For even as we have many members in one body, but all members do not have the same function, so we the many are one body in Christ, and each one members of one another, but having different gifts according to the grace given to us, whether prophecy, according to the proportion of the faith; or ministry, in the ministry; or the one teaching, in the teaching; or the one exhorting, in the encouragement; the one sharing, in simplicity; the one taking the lead, in diligence; the one showing mercy, in cheerfulness.”
Romans 12:4-8
Let us revisit our manner of living, for the measure of our giving IS the measure of our receiving of His richness that is to abound within His Body in the earth. By His design, each of us are to touch His Life flowing through each member unto every other member. Stagnation comes from living outside of the press and the joy of His Love governing our lives.
“But unto every one of us is given grace
according to the measure of the gift of Christ.”
Ephesians 4:7
“Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers. Give and spend, and be sure that God will send; for only in giving and spending do you fulfill the object of His sending.”
— J. G. Holland
“And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you…”
2 Corinthians 12:15
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Brian Troxel
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