The Nature of a Gift

Salvation is not mine, it is the Lord’s. If I truly treasure His gift of renewal, salvation, new birth, and revelation, I must loose my hold on them. Once I can unlearn the habit of holding on to things and ideas I can grasp, God will be able to reveal to me their value, and I'll really see the need to invest these treasures in Heaven’s 'Treasury. It seems that stewardship is more about adopting your value system to God's, and trusting what He says He can do.

Generosity is not just about giving compassionately (in sympathy or empathy), or worse, only in and out of excess, but learning that gifts and blessings are not for my personal use but if I really have seen and discerned the heart of a generous God, it will be evident, and I will be compelled to give those same gifts away, and with heavens best interest (and supernatural increase) in mind.

(Disclaimer: This doesn’t mean that I won’t find benefit in the gifts I’m given or treasures I find. It means that Heaven and Earth are two different paradigms if you will, and Jesus tells us to ask the Father for Heaven, which would signify that Jehovah has given us access to those treasures we are taught to lay there.

One way to picture this is to say your bank account or love language for receiving gifts is a square hole, and only God’s gifts that are square are really going to fit there. So if God is pouring out another shape of gift into your life right now – say a star shaped peg, pay attention to the places where there is a star shaped hole around you. If you have to make an effort to get there, make sure you do it, and pour that blessing into it’s rightful place.)

I think it’s safe to say that Heaven’s economy is an endowment. Heaven’s treasurer is Generous (aka Jehovah - Jesus), Heaven’s government is not a regulatory system based on manipulating and trading the value of its gifts or its ambassador’s strengths to deliver the goods – nor is it a holdings company expecting unreasonable and lucrative earnings and results from its ventures. The responsibility of growth and increase in the Kingdom is up to Jesus, and always consistent according to the Father’s plan. The trends show favorable for all of us.

I believe the problem is not what anyone lacks, or what excess they have and how the stuff ought to be stewarded, but what can be stewarded with what one has, what one can give, what one can teach or express. God and His Kingdom has never known lack, never known sin, dishonor, death, nor has the Kingdom known excess. Nor does it’s Treasurer withhold the dispensation of good things that He promised, and is promising. Amen.