Giving and Receiving
One has never learned to live untill he becomes a liberal giver. There are at least three benefits that
will come into the life of a Christian when he becomes a liberal giver. First, he will have a heightened
and intensified sense of the presence of God when he begins to practise liberality.
Second, the liberal giver soon discovers a new feeling of responsibility in his financial dialings, each one being invested with a new sanctity. This inevitably produces a heightened sense of the presence of God.
Third, one comes to a sence of the daily companionship of the Father, as each day’s work is dedicated to the cause of Christ.
One man said to me: “I date the beginning of a new spiritual experience from that day that I decided to be a liberal giver.”
A liberal giver has great influence. Again and again it has happpened that history has been determined
by a small group of adventurous souls who have been supremely dedicated to a great ideal. The fiftyfive founding fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to draft the constitution for the American Republic influenced the history of mankind more profoundly than great marching hosts tramping across the filed of battle.
In every congregation those fruitful, liberal givers are influencing the life of the congregation. It is through their liberality that mission work is being done, orphans are being fed and the church of the Lord is extending her borders.
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