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“A generous person will prosper, whoever refreshes others will be refreshed” (Proverbs 11:25).  Generosity creates a cycle of flourishing rather than causing lack.  When we give of our time, money or for that matter encouragement to help others, we receive emotional, spiritual and sometimes material renewal in return.  

Unlike our culture that tells you to get all you can, it’s yours, use it as you please and hoard the rest, Mark 8:36 tells us that “holding on” will lead to spiritual poverty. “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?” Whereas giving back will expand our life! God wants us to be like Him, to walk as His Son did which means we must take a critical look at what it means to be generous.  

The Lord Himself has always been extremely generous toward mankind.  Consider: we’ve all sinned against Him and rebelled against His sovereignty and authority.  Some have even gone so far as to deny His existence while cursing Him!  Even with such actions, objectively one can begin to understand why any response short of complete judgement by Him toward mankind is remarkably generous! Truth is God has gone far beyond just showing us a little mercy… He has allowed His justice to fully fall upon His Son, the Lord Jesus!  God the Father allowed His only Son to bear the payment for mankind’s sin and forgiveness. There is nothing anyone can do to earn this type of generosity. God’s generosity is undeserving and truly infinite. 

God first loved and because of His remarkable generosity toward you, it would be right to pay His generosity forward by helping those He places in your life!  To get up and go do something, help someone in such a way that it will bless them.  Choose to be generous - go refresh someone whose spiritual life is dry and barren.  Go out and bless someone else who could never repay you for what you are about to do.  When you do you will soon learn (or be reminded) the truth of Proverbs 11:25. You will be spiritually prosperous, and you will find yourself being refreshed by God Himself for your generosity and by your willingness to adopt His character as your own.

Choose to be generous with those around you (as God desires) and you’ll find that it’s possible to live life with far less regret!  

Father, thank You for this reminder:  “...just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:28).  Help me go and do the same… help others and do so in specific ways that are a blessing to those I help! Amen

  An MCHA Stop~n~Think - 08.28.2026 - Courtesy of  MCHA Ministry Coordinator Tim Chastain