GIVING, PROPORTIONAL

Give according to your income, lest God make your income according to your giving.559

A well-known philanthropist was asked, “How is it that you give away so much, and yet have so much left?”

“I suppose it’s like this,” he replied. “I shovel out, and God shovels in, and he has a bigger shovel than I do!”560

A man came to his pastor for counseling. He felt convicted that he had not been faithful in giving God a portion of the generous thousand-dollar weekly salary he was making. The man explained, “I had no problem thanking God and giving him a liberal offering when I was making just two hundred and fifty dollars a week. Please pray for me.”

The pastor then prayed, much to the man’s dismay, “Father, please bring this man back to a two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar salary so that he can get back into your will.”561