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  • The Gift of Generosity

    Is kindness unappreciated?

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    Does it matter if you're generous? Let's plunge into the Deeper Waters and find out.

    Many of you know that my wife and I are poor. I was recently sharing at a men's group at my church about this. I had said my wife wanted to get a Nintendo Switch, but it costs too much and even too much as a Christmas gift. It couldn't be done. This was said because we were talking about coveting and wanting things you can't have.

    We've had a surprise from that recently. Someone in the group really was alert when I said that and told my wife they were going to buy us one and asked what games we wanted. It's in our living room right now. We got it yesterday. This same person also has a wife who teaches dance and is willing to get Allie into the class so she can learn it as she wants to lose weight that way.

    We have another friend who upon hearing that we were going to be getting the Switch offered to give us a game of our choice. It has been one we have been spending time enjoying. I have been marveling over this lately. Gifts aren't my love language, but they do mean something to me.

    For the Switch, I saw this person in church yesterday with their wife and kids and I talked to him and his wife about what it meant after the service. Here they have Christmas coming up and kids that will be needing to go to college and so many other things, and they went out and did something like this for our Christmas hardly knowing us at all.

    We were told that he grew up in a place (I won't say where, as I want to keep him anonymous) where there was great poverty and his mother had to walk half a mile from the house and half a mile back regularly just to get water to bathe the children. It told me he had seen that poverty and understood what it meant when someone was in that.

    Around here, we have someone on the local radio station who has a drive to help out foster kids at Christmas to make sure that they all get gifts for Christmas. It's a wonderful cause, but here's the thing. I understand he's Jewish. While he could be Messianic, if he's not even a Christian but providing so kids can have a good Christmas, shouldn't we who are followers of Jesus do that?

    Christians are to be generous people. Scripture tells us that the Lord loves a cheerful giver. Don't you want to be someone the Lord loves? My wife and I don't have much, but we try to give what we can because we know there are definitely people worse off than we are.

    Now this is concerning money, but there are other gifts you can give. You can give the gift of your time. You can give the gift of service. You can give the gift of listening.

    You can also give to those who are close to you. Don't take for granted they know how much you mean to them. They might not. Sometimes someone might be helped if you just pick up the phone and call them and ask how they're doing. Take them out to lunch or something of that sort. It doesn't even have to be a fancy place. Some people would be fine just being taken out to fast food just so they could talk to someone.

    Gifts like this can give hope. As I thought about this gift this friend had given us, it really made me think there could be more hope than I realized. The church has already been generous to us and maybe there was something more we could do then. Just yesterday I got to teach a class on apologetics and it was such a thrill. Someone said afterward they would like to see a small group started.

    Christians are to be giving people because we have been given so much. Hugh Ross has been on my show a number of times and he has said at one point that it has been said that Christians have enough resources to fulfill the Great Commission in five years. I can believe it. Why isn't it fulfilled? It's not a priority to us.

    Christmas time is here and it is the season of giving. When you're giving, please also consider with end of the year giving a donation to Deeper Waters. Make your donation through Risen Jesus and let me or my wife know or my in-laws so that we can make sure we will get the donation. It is tax-deductible that way.

    Please pause today to consider how you could give to someone. To you, it might be a small thing. To them, it might be everything.

    In Christ,
    Nick Peters

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    I decided to do yhat angel tree thing with the salvation army. I had a second copy of miracles by C.S Lewis. I figured that the kid might just be homeless. I dont think I might ever meet this kid. All i can do is hope that he gets what i gave him. Clothes, games, things that keep people going. I am sometimes criticized for saying that I can make a difference just by helping one person. The fact remains though a kid now has a coat he didnt have before.
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      I decided to do yhat angel tree thing with the salvation army. I had a second copy of miracles by C.S Lewis. I figured that the kid might just be homeless. I dont think I might ever meet this kid. All i can do is hope that he gets what i gave him. Clothes, games, things that keep people going. I am sometimes criticized for saying that I can make a difference just by helping one person. The fact remains though a kid now has a coat he didnt have before.
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