LEND TO GOD: Devotion for Tuesday March 8, 2016

LEND TO GOD: Devotion for  Tuesday March 8, 2016

Text: Proverbs 19:17      Memory verse: v 17

Our text for the day is a very interesting one because many people are confused about it and they have kept acting ignorantly. A friend gave me this request: “My Pastor, please help me in prayer. I am going through terrible bad times. I am so badly indebted. Nothing is moving around me and I have been seeking God’s face to help me. The more I am sowing the seed, the more things are getting worse. Cash, my electronics, my jeep car, all I have given with hope to be better but the opposite is what I get. I am running from my shop now because of debt. Please pray for me.” What led this friend into this is ignorance and lack of basic foundation of Christian faith. In 1 Cor. 13:3, Paul said, “And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.” From this passage it is worthy to note that lending to God must not be with conditions. It must come from a heart of love for God and the recipient. See Matt 6:1–2.

Our text says that the best investment of our property is in deeds of charity. Compassion is the inward principle of charity in the heart and it is to have pity on the poor. You may not have a kobo for the poor, yet you may have pity for them, a charitable concern and sympathy bearing in mind what Paul said in 1 Cor. 13:3. See also Isa. 58:10. Lending to the Lord or seed sowing shouldn’t be a priority due to desire to have more rather due to love for God and humanity. Anything outside of this will amount to regret of your charitable deeds and seed sowing. Let the love for God propel us in giving to God and fellow human beings in need.

Food for Thought: Isaiah 58:10

Prayer: Lord God, may love for you propel me in charitable deeds and seed sowing.