With Your possessions, Honor the Lord – (Proverbs 3:9-10)
Daily Proverbs
Honor the Lord with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase; So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.
Daily Bible Study
Everything we have is a gift from the Lord. And it’s the Lord who gave us our talents and our abilities to earn our living and provide for ourselves and our family. Our faith in Christ calls us to use our increase and our talents to honor the Lord. By first giving back to the Lord with our time, talents and wealth and by doing so, we honor God and provide for kingdom work. Not as an obligation to God, but because of our love for the Lord. We do this out of the love we have for Jesus and not because we have to. This basic principle is so important because cheerfully giving out of our love for God shows our trust and faith in the Lord to provide for our needs.
We have to remember as followers of Jesus, we were bought at a price, we are no longer our own, but we belong to God as children of God and joint-heirs with Christ in the kingdom of God. Therefore, our joy and our privilege, is to honor the Lord and glorify His name, with our time, talents and resources. And our love for others is no better displayed than through our giving to help those in need and share the Gospel with those who are lost in a dark and dying world. To use what we have to display the light of Christ to others. In addition, it’s a blessing and a gift from God Himself, which allows us to participate in His kingdom work of blessing others as a result of our giving. This is also part of stewardship, which is to wisely use what God has given us, to help ourselves, our families, those in need around us and to support fellow workers in the kingdom of God.