You Can't Forget Giving

I finished reading A Little Princess to the kids tonight. There is so much good about this book, I almost couldn't read because I was getting choked up. Something that I thought of was that the gifts that are given from your "needs", the things that are not just extras - well, those are the things that you remember most, both on the giving and receiving ends. When you give out of love, thinking more about others than yourself, it changes you.

Jesus said to lay up our treasures in heaven instead of on earth. I think that part of that treasure is the way that we are changed by how we let God use us and work through us. That is part of a purification process that is making us more of the citizen of heaven that we rightly are. The change is as much part of laying up treasure in heaven as whatever else God will surprise us with when we get there. Giving inspires more giving. It makes life more lovely to us in a way because of how it changes us! It is a mysterious process of God that turns us from the selfish slaves of sin that we were, into a beautiful shining creature that we never thought we could be. Does the caterpillar know he will get wings? How many times do we get myopic in our faith and can't rightly imagine a better transformation that God do in us?

I have lately found myself finding that though I thought I trusted God, that when I had to do it, I wasn't trusting Him nearly like I thought I did. I have told God my worries many times lately, and He keeps telling me the same thing - "Trust Me." I wonder sometimes why I write this blog. Do the things I write have an impact? Do I connect with anyone? Well, if anything, I guess you could look at it like a therapy session for me that you are free to read. I am glad to put my thoughts down. I figure that there are others that can benefit from it, too. I hope you do.