“Giving is the first thing to do in breaking the cycle of greed and taking hold of real life.”

A thought by Darren Whitehead and Jon Tyson (2011-07-19) from their book, Rumors of God: Experience the Kind of Faith You´ve Only Heard About (Kindle Locations 607-608). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

Margaret and I moved to Long Island in New York nearly 3 years ago. We moved here for a specific reason and we were glad we moved. But one problem with the move is that it is so expensive to live here. God has helped us and supplied our personal needs but we have not been able to give at the level we are used to or really want to. So what do you do? Well what we are doing is to make some changes in our life.

The main one is we are moving to Florida and cutting our living expenses way down. We are going smaller and we are going to own it. God has been so good to us to allow us to live in some beautiful houses but we don’t need all that space anymore now that I have retired. Our last home we had where I Pastored in Las Vegas was very large. But we used it. One of our last Christmas’s there we had over 200 people in our home. We don’t need that now so we are going smaller.

It is so interesting how God works. It seems that when we are living right up to what we have and being so careful to stretch it without extra giving, our money stretches just to what we have. We survive. But when we give over and above our tithe it seems that our money stretches beyond what it should. We are taken care of and more.

It seems that giving is a main way to show our trust in God to take care of us. Giving is a faith issue.

So who/what do you trust?

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