FAITH CAPSULE: Do not narrow your question to what you are giving or what you are getting in this season.
Luke 10:25-37
Most times, a man’s action is the answer to the question generated from the inside. In this season, what are the questions that are being generated within your heart? As a believer, your focus should not be narrow to just this season but the time and season we are living. What is/are the questions being generated from your inside? It is important not to narrow your question to what you are giving or what you are getting in this Christmas season. However, in this Christmas season, question yourself: What shall I do to inherit eternal life? Throughout the whole bible, the question is repeatedly asked and answered directly and indirectly. There is only one answer and the answer is to Love God. Deuteronomy 6:5 stated it, Luke 10:27 emphasized it, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, ‘and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’” Do you love the way of God or the way of the world? (Waiting to be given before giving is a way of loving in the way of the world)
Jesus pointed out in the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) what it means to love in the way of God. To love in the way of God is to know and to do good when and where doing good demands it. James 4:17 buttressed, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” We all know that with sin no man see God. Evidently, ignoring to do what is good when the chance to do good present itself is a sin. In the parable, when the chance present itself to the Levite to do good he passed it bye. Luke 10:31, “Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.” Giving the best you have been blessed to give by God is the gift that is reasonable sacrifice. Giving should not be a thing of pretending love or a giving out of evil heart to impress. God love us so much that He gave to us His beloved son, in whom He is well pleased. (Matthew 3:17)
What shall I do to inherit eternal life? What you are giving is the determinant of what it takes to inherit eternal life. God wants us to give Love in full. It is the will of God for us to love. To be able to love as commanded by God one must be able to fear God. Without the fear of God there is no way to love as commanded by God. When we fear Him we become full of Him. The book of Ecclesiastes 12:13 admonishes us stating, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandment, for this is man’s all.”
Prayer for today: Ask God to bestow on you the grace to love with all that which He has given you.