“When we recognise that everything we have comes from God’s hand, generosity is the only reasonable response.”
Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – November 10, 2026
“But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand.” 1 Chronicles 29:14, NIV
For many a member of the human race, generosity does not come naturally. If you have ever interacted with a small child, you have most likely seen this fact illustrated. I’ve seen it in my own children when they accompany me on the weekly shopping trip. I’ll purchase a bag of some treat or other and offer it to one child to then share out with his or her siblings. But as soon as the bag is safely in the child’s clutches, the hoarding instinct suddenly kicks in. The treat is theirs, and it is only with a great show of magnanimity that any small offerings are shared with the other hungry little shoppers. What’s more, it is even with reluctance that they share with me, the one purchasing the treat in the first place! How quickly the child forgets the hand that feeds her.
This natural stinginess is yet another example of my children’s human-nature struggles holding up a mirror to my own. Everything I have comes from my Father’s hand, who has lavished his goodness on me. And yet, I carry around a subtle dread that I might be asked to give any little bit of it up. When someone in need crosses my path, how quickly I shrug off responsibility and congratulate myself on managing my own affairs better than they have. Of course all of this behavior, when looked at through the lens of Reality, is so very childish. If I just stopped long enough to really digest the truth that all that I have is the Lord’s, shared with me out of His Fatherly love and grace, my tight grip on all that I thought was “mine” would surely start to relax. If I remembered that all heavenly riches are forever mine in Christ, I would no longer hold onto the finite stuff of money and things as if I needed them. If my heart could fill with the gratitude it owes to the Giver of All Good Things, then sharing from his bountiful goodness with others in need would become a joy and a privilege.
It is human nature to hold on with closed fists to what we believe is our own. It is Christ’s nature to open our hands and offer all they have to the Father’s perfect ordering. We breathe the breath that he gives us to breathe. Let us use every gift and every breath to worship him!
Prayer
Father God, forgive me when I have been tight-fisted towards you and to the needs you’ve put in my way. Grant me a heart of gratitude that recognises the source of all that I have, and help me grow in Christ-like generosity. Amen.
Application
Examine with the Lord your attitude to generosity. Seek an opportunity to share the riches he has given you with someone else this week.
Related Reading
2 Samuel 7:18; Psalm 24:1; Romans 11:36; 1 Corinthians 4:7; James 1:17
Worship Resource
Matt Redman: Breathing The Breath
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