每日365
七月三日
“有吝惜过度的，反致穷乏；有施散的，却更增添！”（箴11:24）
上帝给予你的，总是会超过你的付出；他喜欢这样做，他永不会让你的付出比他给予你的还多！你付出的越多，他就会还给你越多！但如果你不愿意付出的话，上帝就可能会把它拿走。如果在你能给他一个奉献的情况下却不愿给他的话，他就会向你作一次征收，而这个征收将会超过你曾能够给予的数量！
正如那位富人一样：他有了一个那么大的丰收，还拥有那么多的财富，但他不但没有决定去与别人一起分享，反而却决定建造更大的谷仓，好为自己贮藏更多的粮食（路12章）。上帝赐给他的大丰收并不是他的罪，但他的最大问题就是他的自私自利之心，这使得他的灵魂变得贪婪物质上的东西。他不想与别人分享的那些东西，在死时，也不能把它们带走；结果，他便丧失了一切！这就是上帝对自私自利和其报应的行事方法。但如果你愿意给予的话，上帝就必会赏赐你、还给你、以及祝福你，使你的福分多得甚至都装不下！他曾这么应许过！（玛3:10）
你在做什么呢？你是在吝惜？还是在施散？“你们用什么量器给人，也必用什么量器量给你们！”（路6:38）
DAILY 365
July 3
“There is one who scatters, yet increases more; and there is one who withholds more than right, but it leads to poverty” (Proverbs 11:24).
God loves to outgive us.. The more we give, the more He gives us back. But if we’re not willing to give, God’s apt to take. If you won’t give Him an offering when you can, He might take a collection that will far outweigh what you could have given.
It’s like the story of a certain rich man in the Bible who had a big harvest and many riches, but instead of sharing with others, he decided to build bigger barns to hold more for himself (Luke 12:16–21). It wasn’t the big crop that was his sin; God gave him that. His problem was his selfishness—the barniness of his own soul, his unwillingness to share his blessings with others. God told him that he would die that very night and he couldn’t take anything with him, so he lost it all. That’s selfishness and its reward. But if you are willing to give, God will reward and repay and bless you with much more than you gave. He’s promised that!
Which are you doing?—Withholding or scattering? “Whatever measure you use to give—large or small—will be used to measure what is given back to you” (Luke 6:38).