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Theme of the Week: Untamed Generosity
Monday, December 8, 2008
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Key Bible Verse: "Your gift will return to you … pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over. Whatever measure you use in giving—large or small—it will be used to measure what is given back to you" (Luke 6:38). Bonus Reading: 2 Corinthians 9:11-15
While driving across the Midwest with his lawyer/financial adviser, millionaire Paul J. Meyer was stopped at a highway construction site. Meyer, who gives away more than 90 percent of what he earns, was intrigued with a young woman dressed in blue jeans, wearing a helmet, holding a stop sign. He leaned out the window and asked, "Why are you working in construction?"
She said, "I'm working my way through college."
"Can't your parents help you?"
"No, they're not in a position to help right now."
"What do you want to be?"
"My dream is to become a nurse someday."
Meyer handed her his card. "Young lady," he said, "I'm in the business of making dreams come true. Next week you call this number and I'll see that you have the money to go to college."
The next week the adviser got a phone call. The girl on the other end of the line said, "Last week some little old man said he'd help pay my way through college if I called this number. Is that true?"
"Yes, ma'am," he happily replied, "it sure is!"
—Bob Russell in Scripture to Live By
My Response: While I'm no millionaire, I can help someone else's dream come true by …
Adapted from Scripture to Live By (Adams Media, 2007) by permission.
Copyright © 2008 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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Teach me, Lord, to give more like You do: ungrudgingly, freely, lavishly.
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