Into the Generous Life (Telling the Story of God XI)

The Generous Life is about giving, and giving is not contingent on whether you are rich or poor; it’s about a posture. Giving our money, regardless of the amount, is about a posture of trust that opens us to the Reign of God as we live with open hands. Just as giving our money is trusting God with our financial life, so giving our time and energy is trusting God with our physical life. And forgiveness is trusting Jesus with our emotional life, just as gratitude is trusting God with our future. Telling the story of God, as outlined above, is about trusting God with our own story.

Let us live into this life of generosity, for that is the invitation of our discipleship. If we will, then we can grow into the very compassion of God. Indeed, compassion is the expression of God’s generosity through us. Discipleship is growing in our capacity, in Jesus’ name, to live and love like Jesus. If we live in unhurriedness, we can live The Generous Life, being present in all of the moments where God is at work around us. After all, He is always at work, creating encounters—even encounters through us—of the life of God.

We get to tell the story of the God who adopts the unsorted and the unworthy. The God who transforms us to become ambassadors and outposts of the kingdom of God. The God who teaches us to live in abundant life, for the sake of the world. May that God so fill and empower us that hearts burn, as on the Emmaus Road, that the world would indeed be made new, to God’s glory and to our joy.

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