Messing With Your Blessing

Messing With Your Blessing

Luke 6:38 - 'If you give, you will receive. Your gift will return to you
in full measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more,
and running over. Whatever measure you use in giving-large or small-it
will be used to measure what is given back to you.'

Is stinginess from God? Is God stingy towards us? No, not in the least. He gives perpetually to us, grace, love, etc...... So where does stinginess come from? Well if we research the word of God, stinginess caused the first murder in the bible. Cain was stingy to God and did not please God with his sacrifice. Cain gave a fruit sacrifice which was not acceptable to God because God required a living sacrifice.

So, Cain got upset at his brother when he really should have been upset with himself. Abel gave God the best offering he could, and it was not his fault that God was more pleased with him than his brother. He was just obedient and gave what was required of him. What Cain failed to see was that Abel pleased God because Abel stayed open to receive of God by giving what was required. When you give what is required, you open yourself up so that you can receive. Cain wasn't hurting God by holding back, but God was displeased with him because he was cutting off his own ability to receive! We must learn to give cheerfully and not hold on to what really belongs to God.


The living sacrifice was God's and the fruit of the earth was mans. God wanted a sacrifice that would bring him glory and his own living creation could do that. But the fruit of the land gave glory to man because it was of the earth. God always wants what is his and when we try to keep it, we become stingy and cut off our own blessings. Your offerings belong to God and not you, so when you hold on to it, it hurts you and when you give it back to God, it blesses you. God is not upset with you about you keeping your money because he wants it so bad. He just doesn't want you cutting off your own blessing by keeping what is his!

Imagine playing catch with someone. If you throw them a ball, they cannot catch it if they are holding on to something else right? It will bounce right off their tight fists and hit the ground.
Well, when we are holding on to things, our hands are closed. How do we expect to receive the blessings that God is sending us if we don't let go of things we are already holding? When we give we make more room in our hands to receive. Are your blessings hitting your fists and landing on the ground around you? Give your best to God. Give what is required of you. Your offerings are not yours, but God's, so do not keep them. But even more important, give your body, a living sacrifice, holy unto God and don't hold on to your own will.

Don't mess with your blessing but rather give willfully and you will be blessed bountifully.


Suggested Reading: Gen. 4:7, Gen. 14:20, Mal. 3:8, 2Cor. 9:6,