One of life’s great truisms is if we are selfish we will never reach our fullest potential. And one of life’s great ironies is if we are unselfish we will never reach our fullest potential. If we are selfish we will become stagnant and cease to grow. And if we are givers God will launch us upon a journey to infinity, for God is a giver and we were created in His image. Should we seek to be like Him the possibilities before us are amazing. Paul says our possibilities are beyond our wildest imaginations. Peter says we have been given exceedingly great and precious promises. Jesus says ask and we will receive.
So what is wrong when we ask and don’t receive? It is all about motive. If our asking is selfish it is futile. When we cease to be givers we cease to be like Him and thus we have lost our original purpose for being. Why should God pour out blessings for us if we are like the Dead Sea that only takes? The more God can trust us to be a conduit of blessings to others, the more blessings He will channel through us. Heaven is full of blessings and God needs ways to dispense them. The more we give the more we become. The more we become the greater the possibilities for us to become even more. It is a never-ending pattern of growth.
Here is the fascination of this. If we don’t give we die and will never be all that we can be. If we give we will live and never be all that we can be, because there is always tomorrow with bigger and better blessings. The possibilities are infinite. How grand.
Written by Roger Bothwell on April 16, 2010
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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