Not by Offering

AATHAVAN 🖋️ 672 ⛪ Wednesday, November 30, 2022

"Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things to whom be glory for ever. Amen." ( Romans 11 : 35,36 ) 

In this world, people do not hesitate to indulge in any crooked ways to get help to meet their needs. If they want any privilege or certificate from the Government departments, they try to get it by paying bribes. This narrow mindedness of men continues even with God. One reason for this is the preaching of Christian pastors and the so called evangelists of these days  who guide people.

They teach people that if they want to get some blessing from God, they have to give something to him. They preach, "If you give offering  of a thousand rupees, God will return it in ten thousand; if you give two thousand, you will get back twenty thousand".  Todays popular Christian ministers have made the love of God cease in people by their foolish teaching that, God will bless us depending on the amount we give.

Jesus Christ did not consider the offering of the rich who gave more, but the two pennies of the poor widow. What the Lord Jesus Christ said about that offering is something we should always remember. "For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living." ( Mark 12 : 44 ) Jesus said. Also, the widow did not give an offering because she wanted a double blessing; She gave it in love and with the desire to give to the Lord.

The apostle Paul looked at people who give offering with the intention of receiving rich blessings and says, "who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things..." That means we cannot get blessings from God by giving him money. For all things in this world were made by Him and through Him and for Him.

We receive something from God only by His sheer grace and not by giving Him an offering. By this you should not misunderstand that we should not give offerings, what I am saying is, we should give offerings consciously, out of love for God, but not with the worldly purpose of getting something from Him. Because He is not a beggar whose desires are to be fulfilled by us. All things in this world are by him and for him.

The apostle James says, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." ( James 1 : 17 ). All blessings come from God the Father. With Him there is no difference between those who give more and those who give less.

We should not lose grace by heeding to the advice of blind guides but should plead for God's grace. 

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