YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE!

"Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven; give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again" (Lk 6:37,38).

Indeed, it is amazing and yet true that very often forgiving and giving go together - as we find in this text. Also, quite often, those who scarcely give, scarcely forgive. OUR GOD FORGIVES ABUNDANTLY AND ALSO GIVES ABUNDANTLY. "God loves a cheerful giver." God loves a cheerful forgiver too.

"Give and it shall be given unto you" - whatever it may be that you give. Giving is like sowing. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Gal 6:7). If you give trouble to others, it shall be given to you in return. And one always reaps more than what one sowed. In the same way, what you give to others you will get back - multiplied - in good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over. You may give kindness to others, you may give hatred, love or forgiveness; no matter what you give, you will receive it, and that, in good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over!

- TPM 'Morning Manna'