A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure to listen to a beautiful sermon about generosity. "if love is the motor of our lives, generosity is its petrol", those were the words used by the preacher. How true.
The Gospel was a beautiful passage from Luke 6, and the keyword of the entire Gospel of the morning was "giving". Give and it will be given to you.
It really resembles a cause-effect principle, and this is the way we are tempted to look at it. By giving we have been promised a "good measure, pressed down" and that "with the measure you use, it will be measured to you". The more we give, the more we'll receive. This seems to be the natural order.
What the sermon invited us to do, was actually notice that our Lord actually reverted the cause and effect.
This is the actual key: we have to be generous because we already received the good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over. Everything we have in our life is already a gift of the infinite love of our God.
This really changes the whole perspective. Our life is a gift, our time is a gift, every single thing we own is a gift.
The call to be generous then, the invitation to give, is a natural consequence of the immense love we continuously experience, we live every day, every single instant of our life.
I was especially conscious of God's loving generosity today as I watched four young men generously responding to His overwhelming love by vowing themselves to His service and the service of His people.
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