Generosity and Our Hearts

Generosity is a practice which can index our hearts to Christ.

I grew up in a home with four sisters. My dad said he ran a sorority. We certainly had a lot of fun, but a heart-to-heart conversation was never far behind the laughter and silliness!

I still remember bringing Jonathan to our family’s home shortly after dating. I failed to prep him for our candid heart-to-heart conversations. So when my sister leaned over and asked Jonathan “How’s your heart?” he unknowingly replied “It’s still beating.” We all had a good laugh.

While it may be a bit uncomfortable for some of us to lean in and ask questions like “What’s going on in your heart?” I don’t think we can leave the heart out of the generosity conversation.

You see, Jesus had so much more to say about money than just making it, spending it and tithing it. It is about forming us into people pervaded by the love of God.

We can practice generosity by opening the things in our hands – investments, bank accounts, etc. – so the Holy Spirit can do what He can do in our hearts – transform us. 

 I think John Mark Comer hit it on the head when he stated this:

Generosity is about the interior architecture of our hearts.  And Jesus is all about the heart. In fact, the practice of generosity can be a formation of indexing our hearts to become more and more like Christ. And furthermore, to be more GENEROUS BY NATURE.

Amen! I personally love that! Sisters, is that not who we want to be? Generous by nature, like Christ.

We are all on our own journey’s of generosity. It involves our relationship with Christ.  As it grows deeper our response to His love grows as well.  And therefore so will our generosity.

That’s the beauty of the practice of generosity.

And as we are growing in Christlikeness, wouldn’t our giving look sacrificial too? Generosity then is a virtuous response, not just a virtuous act.

Follow along and read more in joining us on this journey, sister!