Smart Gals (and a Few Guys) on Giving

Thursday, June 13, 2013 Posted by Debbie Legg

*Mary Kay National Sales Director Rena Tarbet said it this way: “You know, you can’t out-give God. You’ve got a little bitty shovel and He’s got a great big shovel.”

I love that mental picture. We are shoveling out blessings and He is shoveling exponentially more back to us. God gives EXTRAVAGANTLY.

*Joyce Meyer: “When you give, you get the blessing. They just get the stuff.”

If we give $10, we don’t get $10 back from God. We get something unique to us and to our situation. God gives PERSONALLY.

*Margot, executor of her mother’s will (with a twinkle in her eye): “I tell you, every other check the woman wrote was to a charity. I’m writing all of these letters: ‘Dear Little Brothers of the Poor, I am sorry. The well has run dry.’”

Giving not only affects the recipient, but those around the giver. God gives a LEGACY.

*The farmer to his son: “I noticed you left your wallet in the tractor so I brought it in. I also noticed it didn’t have any money in it so I put a twenty in there.”

Putting money INTO a found wallet? That sounds like fun. How many different ways can we come up with to give? God gives CREATIVELY (and He has a good time doing it).

*God Himself: "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it."(Malachi 3:10)

I have heard that this is the only place in the entire Bible where God says to TEST HIM. I vote we try it.

And we might look into building a barn or two.