Giving characterizes God’s
creation. From the first page of Scripture, He is presented as a philanthropic
creator. He produces in pluralities: stars, plants, birds, and animals. Every
gift arrives in bulk, multiples, and medleys. God begets Adam and Eve in a
“liturgy of abundance” and tells them to follow suit: “be fruitful and multiply”
(Genesis 1:28).
Scrooge didn’t create the
world; God did.
Psalm 104 celebrates this
lavish creation with twenty-three verses of itemized blessings: the heavens and
the earth, the waters and streams and trees and birds and goats and wine and
oil and bread and people and lions. God is the source of “innumerable teeming
things, living things both small and great… These all wait for You, that You
may give them their food in due season” (vv. 25,27).
And He does. God is the
great giver. The great provider. The fount of every blessing. Absolutely
generous and utterly dependable. The resounding and recurring message of
Scripture is clear: God owns it all. God shares it all. Trust Him!
-- Max Lucado in Fearless: Imagine Your Life
Without Fear
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