I recently finished reading Randy Alcorn’s book, The Treasure Principle.
My takeaways:
- God owns everything. I’m His money manager: we are the managers of the assets God has entrusted-not given-to us.
- My heart always goes where I put God’s money: watch what happens when we reallocate your money from temporal things to eternal things.
- Heaven, not earth, is my home: we are citizens of a better country-a heavenly one.
- I should live not for the dot but for the line: from the dot-our present life on earth-extends a line that goes on forever, which is eternity in heaven.
- Giving is the only antidote to materialism: giving is a joyful surrender to a greater person and a greater agenda. It dethrones me and exalts Him.
- God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving: God gives us more money than we need so we can give-generously.
So, my giving covenant:
- I affirm God’s full ownership of me and everything entrusted to me.
- I set aside firstfruits of every wage and gift I receive as holy and belonging exclusively to the Lord.
- Out of the remaining treasures God entrusts to me, I seek to make generous freewill gifts.
- I ask God to teach me to give sacrificially to His purposes, including the poor and reaching the lost.
- Recognizing that I cannot take earthly treasures from this world, I determine to lay them up as heavenly treasures.
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