{"id":1517,"date":"2021-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2021-02-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T14:00:00","slug":"we-serve-a-generous-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/we-serve-a-generous-god\/","title":{"rendered":"We Serve A Generous God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God doesn\u2019t just love; He <i>lavishes<\/i> love on us (see 1\u00a0John\u00a03:1\u00a0<sup>NIV<\/sup>). He doesn\u2019t dole out wisdom; He <i>\u2018gives generously to all without finding fault.\u2019<\/i> (James\u00a01:5\u00a0<sup>NIV<\/sup>). The Prodigal Son got the fatted calf, the guests at the wedding in Cana got the best wine, and Peter caught so many fish that his boat started to sink. <\/p>\n<p>Paul tells us God <i>\u2018supplies seed to the sower\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Corinthians\u00a09:10\u00a0<sup>NKJV<\/sup>), and the Greek word for <i>\u2018supplies\u2019<\/i> comes from two roots. The first means <i>\u2018to dance\u2019<\/i>, and the second means <i>\u2018to lead\u2019.<\/i> It literally means <i>\u2018to lead a dance\u2019.<\/i> So when God gives to you, He dances for joy. He strikes up the band and leads the giving parade. He loves to give! <\/p>\n<p>One day Peter said to Jesus, <i>\u2018We have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?\u2019<\/i> (Matthew\u00a019:27\u00a0<sup>NKJV<\/sup>) Seems like a good opportunity for Jesus to chastise Peter\u2019s \u2018what\u2019s in it for me?\u2019 mentality. But He didn\u2019t. Instead, He assured Peter that we shall receive a hundredfold in this life and inherit eternal life too (see\u00a0Matthew\u00a019:29). Jesus promises a gain of 10,000 percent!  <\/p>\n<p>If someone gave you a thousand dollars today for every dollar you gave them yesterday, you might call that person \u2018God-generous\u2019. God dispenses His goodness not with an eyedropper, but with a fire hydrant; not with a teacup, but with the Pacific Ocean. You simply can\u2019t contain it. So let it bubble over. Spill out. Pour forth. <i>\u2018Freely you have received;  freely give.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew\u00a010:8\u00a0<sup>NIV<\/sup>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God doesn\u2019t just love; He lavishes love on us (see 1\u00a0John\u00a03:1\u00a0NIV). He doesn\u2019t dole out wisdom; He \u2018gives generously to all without finding fault.\u2019 (James\u00a01:5\u00a0NIV). The Prodigal Son got the fatted calf, the guests at the wedding in Cana got the best wine, and Peter caught so many fish that his boat started to sink. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}