From Your hand... we have given You...

SweetJade

"But who am I and who are my people that we should be able to offer as generously as this? For all things come from You, and from Your hand we have given You....16“O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided to build You a house for Your holy name, it is from Your hand, and all is Yours," (1 Chronicles 29:14,16).

King David had appealed to the nation of Israel for supplies to build the Temple. The result was a great influx of of wood, silver, bronze, iron, precious stones, and other materials. David was, of course, well pleased. But what is interesting is how David recognizes where the true source of provision was from. David says that the abundance he had was from the hand of God. I love the statement "...from Your hand we have given You." What a wonderful truth.

We have no temple today to which we can send our support. That is a bit unfortunate only in the sense that by giving to something such as a temple, we would be able to go and see with our own eyes and even touch with our own hands the result of our giving. Not so today.

So now, the way we offer generously to the Lord is through our tithes, offerings, prayer, and help at church. But still, in our lives don't we sometimes refrain from tithing to the Lord and in so doing we forget that it is from His hand that we give back to Him. Don't we sometimes neglect our prayers and neglect opportunities at church to help? What we have has been given is from God and it is right and proper to give back to the Him who is provided so much for us. To do so is worship and a demonstration of the appreciation of God's provision as well as a demonstration of our trust in him.

Doesn't everything belong to the Lord? Isn't He the one who provides, who guides, and who demonstrates to us His love in the person of Jesus Christ through the cross? All these things are all answered in the affirmative and when we answer them thusly we can better appreciate the kindness and greatness of God and His provision to us...and this should comforts us as well as motivate us.

Great insight!! --Sweet Jade.

CARM:Christian Apologetic & Research Ministry: Matt slick--President http://www.carm.org/newsletter/2008/07-30-08.htm
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SweetJade
...Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edified.
If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;
but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him. 1 Cor.8:1b-3 ~NASV~

Petch · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:01 am Post subject:

Thanks for sharing.

Giving is an act of caring. When we give without caring,
mostly they all are junks that we want to get rid off!
For me, I think if giving is start from heart,
even a penny would be very bless in the giver's hand.

And talk about giving...we all can share the Gospel or testimony
as an act of giving toward the church's body. Smile