How Do We Show Our Love For God?

‘My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.’

Jesus sat opposite the temple treasury box and watched as the people put their money in.

‘And many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites,’ just two little coins. Nothing compared to what the rich put in and yet it was everything!

a faded out image of an open bible on top of a notebook. in the background is a mug and a plant. overlaid are the words It's not about what we give but what we keep

It’s not about what we give Friends, it’s about what we keep back!

It’s about our heart posture. God is worthy of our all but do we give Him all?

Does He have all our heart? All our will, all our love, all our possessions, all our money, all our time? Do we hold it all with open hands and see it as His and not ours?

Is He really our Lord, the Lord of our lives and all we are and possess?

Are we fully devoted to Him or do we, out of the abundance He’s given us, hold much of it back?

Has self been crucified so that there’s room for Christ to live through us or do we prefer to live our lives with just a little Jesus on the side?

Paul, speaking to the Corinthians of his ministry says ‘we then as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.’

Are we workers together with Christ? Joined to Him, letting Him live through us? Ambassadors for Christ?

What a privilege! May we not have received the grace of God in vain but rather be able to say with Paul.

‘By the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.’

‘Yet not I‘!

Paul didn’t do this alone, he didn’t give his all by his own strength but by leaning into the all sufficient grace of God.

Maybe we have been selfish with all God’s given us but it doesn’t have to stay that way because there’s grace in abundance.

‘But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:’

ALL grace!

So let’s be those that lean into God’s grace and live our lives with open hands and hearts. All we possess and every part of us, devoted to God.

1 John 3:18, Mark 12:41-44, 2 Cor 6:1, 1 Cor 15:10, 2 Cor 9:6-8.

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