PROVERBS 11:24 AMP
“There is the one who [generously] scatters [abroad], and yet increases all the more; And there is the one who withholds what is justly due, but it results only in want and poverty.”
GOLD NUGGETS
Today’s text of Scripture may be difficult for some to accept because it violates all the rules of mathematics. How can it be that the more you give away the more you have It doesn’t seem logical! Scripture cannot only be true because it is logical or it makes sense. Lord Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest mathematicians noted “Mathematics and logic have nothing to do with reality.” God has a quite different arithmetic from what we are used to. Five loaves and two fish – the little lunch which a boy once gave to Jesus – was taken by Him and turned into enough food to feed five thousand. And just to add to the point – twelve baskets of fragments were gathered up after everyone had eaten their fill! I’m pretty certain the little boy was amazed and ever so grateful if he was given the twelve baskets of leftover. There are many of such miracles connected to generosity and giving recorded in Scripture. Miracles defy laws of nature, science and mathematics. I cannot explain it, but I have seen it happen again and again. God reaches us with love and generosity each day. May we do same to others. SHALOM: God’s all encompassing blessings to you.
