Jung Woo Park: With God in our generosity

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For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in. Matthew 25:35

“God is always with the weak and the poor. He remembers what I have done to them even though I don’t realize. He also commands me to live a faithful life with my doing the good to them. If all the resources belonging to and surrounding me are from God, because God is good, everything is good and sharable for His glory. As I don’t know fully the relationship between everything, everything should be aligned to His good will and the goodness of God.

Since I did not create my time, money, family, and will not take these with me on my leaving this world, these are not mine but belong to the Creator. To use these according to the will of God is natural and prerequisite to be regarded as righteous.

God is the only Provider of everything. Like water flow, the blessing should be flowing from the Provider to everywhere in need. Only when the blessing flows through me, I may be with God forever, because God’s blessing is not stopped at a certain point. I know I have to make the flow happen from God to the place in need.”

Jung Woo Park, student at Torch Trinity Graduate University in her Philosophy of Biblical Stewardship Paper dated 2 July 2017.

Jung Woo beautifully describes our role as conduits of God’s blessings, whether material or spiritual. The blessings flow through us, and only when they flow toward the poor and needy are we “with God” in our generosity. It’s why we are on this earth, to minister to the lost and the least!

Only when we steward all that God has entrusted to us rightly, are our actions “righteous” before God. And lest anyone misinterprets what is at play here, consider this explanation: God desires we all live rightly with Him and for others, rather than in self-indulgence for ourselves.

What about you? Are resources flowing from God to the people and places where they are needed through you? When we become the clog in the system, it is likely because fear has made its way into our hearts. As Jung Woo put it, we must live a “faithful” (rather than faithless) life in our doing good.