Generosity

A question recently sent in at Living Stones asks, “When is it wrong to spend money on things you don’t need?”

Always.

Just kidding.

Seriously, I spend money on myself all the time and I don’t feel guilty one bit. Sometimes I take that too far though and the Holy Spirit whispers, “Hey, what are you doing?” Essentially what we see in Scripture is a call on the life of the believer to live a life characterized by consistent generosity. Enjoying life through the blessings that God provides is not wrong in and of itself, but when your enjoyment comes at the expense of helping other people when you have abundance but they have a need, then you are flat out in sin. Period.

Generosity is required of you by your God if you follow Jesus. If you are a squanderer, believe it or not but the Scripture says that God removes his blessing from your life (Malachi 3). To seek what God expects from you read passages like Matthew 25, and 2 Corinthians 8 and 9. These are great passages on generosity and how we should use our resources to further God’s Kingdom rather than hold things back out of fear or selfishness.