You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. 2 Corinthians 9:11
“The church is the ultimate resource to show love and kindness to poor and needy to bring them back toward God. To be generous on every occasion requires faith to believe that God will, indeed, care for our needs if we show His love by caring for others…God is the main source of everything, whatever possessions we have will pass away, so we have to be careful in the area of giving and receiving.”
Khuram Masih, student at Torch Trinity Graduate University in his Philosophy of Biblical Stewardship Paper dated 2 July 2017.
Khuram is a passionate follower of Christ from Pakistan. In his paper he emphasized that God is the main source and we are the ultimate resource in order to drive home the point that we are the hands and feet of Jesus to bring people to God through how we generously show love and kindness rooted in deep faith.
He rightly urges God’s people to be careful in giving and receiving because we must do rightly on both counts in order to bless others on every occasion. How are you at giving and receiving? Someday you will meet the main source, face to face, and have to give an account for your stewardship. Are you ready?
Start preparing your response through careful giving and receiving from this day forward. Hear this charge not from someone who lives in luxury, but from a fellow believer who is surrounded by poverty and persecution. Masih believes this lifestyle will bring the poor (that is, the spiritually and materially poor) back to God.