God’s Generosity
If you had millions of dollars, would you be inclined to be even more generous on a broader level?
Would you give more if you knew you could help people and not suffer financial loss?
If you had more than enough food, clothing, etc, would you desire to bless others with some of it?
When a person has boundless resources to the point that they do not have to think about how to replenish them, they can choose to be generous to whomever they wish to be generous.
God is boundless in His resources and power. He chooses whom He will bless with them, too. But one thing is for certain: He is not stingy. He is not a miser. All that He has and gives is good.
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
Good comes from God, and bad and evil come from the Father of lies and are the result of living in a fallen world wrecked by sin. But those who know the Lord have a much brighter outlook in life than those who are the children of the devil.
Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. 12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in You!
The term walk uprightly is there because the covenant the psalmist is under is the Old Covenant. It is another way of saying walking in relationship with God. That is why it says, “Blessed is the man who trusts in You.”
The way this is realized today is through knowing Jesus by faith. When I was born again, I became the very righteousness of God. In other words, I was imputed righteousness to be placed in a relationship with God as His child. This is the New Covenant Jesus established. The blessings promised under the law only if one kept the law in order to be righteous, are now available to those who are in Christ by faith.
All the promises of God are yes and amen in Christ. Walking uprightly with God under the New Covenant is still about trusting in Him. It is still about knowing His goodness, made evident through Jesus Christ. Jesus came and revealed to us the nature of the Father towards us. Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil. God desires to show Himself strong in your life and do you good. He wants to show His goodness with great generosity, too!
It is always available to us, but His goodness is always received by faith and is rooted in our trust in Him based on what we know of Him. This is why growing in our revelation of Him as Jesus presented Him is so important. Every day is a new opportunity in our lives to discover just how much He loves us and desires to do us good. Our God is very generous!
