How Can Giving Be Better Than Receiving

by Chuck Adair on October 10, 2024

How Can Giving Be Better Than Receiving

Read Numbers 7:4-5

Today’s Truth

Giving is a beautiful thing. God has given us all gifts to share with the community around us. We see in this verse that even though Moses is accepting gifts, he is passing it forward to others so that it may be used to build God’s kingdom.

Discussion Questions

Have you ever received a gift you weren’t expecting? How did you feel at that moment?
When is the last time you gave to someone “just because”? Maybe it was a lunch, a surprise gift or something handed down.
How did the experience of giving make you feel?

Application

Some of us think we have to bring silver, gold, and thousands of dollars to bring our best. But giving your best is not always measured in dollars and cents. Sometimes, our best is our hands lifted in worship or even a smile. Other times, giving our best is doing a good deed without anyone knowing.

Giving God our best can be as simple as spreading His love and that is the most wonderful gift of them all.

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About the Author

Chuck Adair

If you ask Chuck his favorite thing in life to do, he would tell you it is the teaching and preaching of the scriptures and to call all people to engage in the great adventure of abiding with Christ. He desires to connect people with the richness, adventure, and fullness of life that comes through Christ alone and to reach the unchurched, de-churched, dead-churched, and unmoved. Chuck is married to his best friend Kristin and has two adult children, Taylor and Linley. Kris and Chuck believe the quality of their marriage rises and falls, not on circumstances or feelings, but based on their daily abiding with Jesus (Jn 15.5).

How Can Giving Be Better Than Receiving