Generosity

Give. We hear God talk a lot about that. Something happens to us when generosity takes precedence over judgment. We are always confronted with the immediate, the surface, the first impression. Those can be misperceptions based upon prejudice, past experience, or learned behavior. We tend to judge the book by looking at it's cover, when Christ seemed to be willing to open the book and read beyond the introduction and preface. He gained insights into people's lives with the turn of each page. Chapter by chapter, he flipped through without judging where the story of their lives were taking him. Once He got to the end, regardless of how the story had seemingly ended, He offered each author the ability to start writing a new chapter. After one encounter with Jesus, the lonely tax collector, Zacchaeus, was moved to action. He didn't say that he would start his daily devotional. He didn't say that he would start to read the Bible in a year. He didn't say that he would wake up at 5 am for prayer. Those things are great to do, and be apart of, but Zacchzeus was moved to action. We was moved to give. He had been given something. Grace. The action of giving from the grace released to us, will begin to separate us further and further from the place of sin, brokenness, and pain. It's a new day, so get your pen and paper handy......