The Wisdom of Jesus Series: Click for Audio: The Prospering Law of Giving
“Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back” (Luke 6:38).
Emma Curtis Hopkins wrote, “You have but one thing to give, namely, your attention.” If you apply her observation to the statement attributed to Jesus, you begin to see why giving is an important key to the kingdom.
Your life flows where your attention goes, so the key is to begin giving your attention to the area you want to see “running over.” You may be saying you want more prosperity but you are experiencing lack. If you use the guideline that the measure you give is the measure you are getting back, you will quickly see that you are giving more of your attention to lack than to prosperity. Otherwise you would be experiencing prosperity.
Perhaps you have not grasped the truth that you are a limitless expression of the Infinite, so you are hanging on to the idea that you only have limited resources. You can begin to give your attention to what it means to be a limitless expression of the Infinite. As such, how would you think? How would you behave? How would you feel when life suddenly nudges your self-defined parameters?
You and I are the product of a cosmic process designed to contribute to and build up the environment we inhabit. Any action that takes more from our environment than we give is an action that compromises the quality of our life.
We all know people that drain us, and we all know people that leave us feeling better than when they found us. These latter are the givers, the ones who are enjoying great returns on their gifts.
In all you do, strive to be a giver, one that leaves people and circumstances in a better condition than you found them.