“If God cares for you, why need you care too? Can you trust Him for your soul, and not for your body? He has never refused to bear your burdens, He has never fainted under their weight. Come, then, soul! Have done with fretful care, and leave all thy concerns in the hand of a gracious God.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) in Morning and Evening Devotions reading for the morning of January 6.
What does God’s care for us have to do with generosity? Everything!
Research from sources like Generous Church shows that rather than being cautious in our spending we’ve become very cautious in our giving. Fear of the future often compounds our caution. Spurgeon would argue that nothing dispels fear faster than resting in the reality of God’s care for us.
Let’s not only rest in the reality of God’s care for us. Let’s live generously demonstrating complete trust in it!