Jim Penner says: \u2018It was a cold snowy day as my mother drove my sister and me to church. Living at the bottom of the Rocky Mountains I\u2019d become accustomed to slipping and sliding. I remember my mother being tense\u2026 and hoping she\u2019d have enough traction to make the curve without ploughing into the semi-truck ahead. Her tyres were bald\u2014new ones were low on our priority list that included food and shelter. As Mom placed a cheque in the offering that day, I remember thinking there were better uses for those funds. Yet here she was tithing! Surely God would understand we had so many needs at home. But there was a contentment about her\u2026 a peace that passed understanding as she gave to the Lord cheerfully and gratefully\u2026 After the service a church elder walked over to her and said, \u201cI see your tyres are bald\u2026 come by my shop tomorrow and I\u2019ll give you some snow tyres.\u201d Mom said, \u201cBut I can\u2019t pay you.\u201d \u201cNo problem,\u201d he replied, \u201cI just want to help.\u201d That day I witnessed two levels of giving: Mom with her offering, and a kind man who wanted to help another human being.\u2019 <\/p>\n
Big things come from little things, and \u2018whoever sows generously will also reap generously.\u2019<\/i> As John Mason observes, \u2018The miraculous realm of God always has to do with multiplication\u2026 Suppose a kernel of corn produces one stalk with two ears, and each ear has 200 kernels. From those 400 kernels come 400 stalks with 160,000 kernels\u2026 all from a single kernel. Some blessings are material, some spiritual. We don\u2019t always know what we need most, but God does, and a generous spirit opens the floodgates of Heaven.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jim Penner says: \u2018It was a cold snowy day as my mother drove my sister and me to church. Living at the bottom of the Rocky Mountains I\u2019d become accustomed to slipping and sliding. I remember my mother being tense\u2026 and hoping she\u2019d have enough traction to make the curve without ploughing into the semi-truck […]<\/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\/1640"}],"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=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}