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Giving Gifts to God...

Volume 4, Issue 9

September 30th, 2005

             Once, while giving baptismal studies to a young boy, I asked, "Why do your parents give you gifts?" I was hoping to use his answer to illustrate God's grace. Instead he said, "Because I am a good boy and I deserve them" - he was wrong on both counts. And God's gifts to us are because He loves us and for no other reason. We don't deserve them.

             What about our gifts to God? Do we only give when we like what the church does? Do we only give when we think that it will be used the way we want? Are we giving the way God gives to us or do we use a different standard?