Hitting the zone of discomfort

Many times to give properly, we have to give in the area of discomfort. It is precisely in that dimension, when we give to God or to others liberally, with extreme, consistent generosity, where the great miracles that God wants to do in our lives take place. And I want to suggest to you that You read this reflection: Adopt this as an ethic of life. Hug him.

Say to yourself: “I am going to be a generous giver. I will be a person known for my generosity and I will be generous with others and with everything that I have. And I will give in the name of the Lord always. I am going to distribute to seven and eight, as the writer of Ecclesiastes says. And whenever I can help someone and bless someone with my gifts, my possessions, I will do it, always in the name of the Lord, as a spiritual act, as something intentional. Not because they put pressure on me to do it, not because I want to manipulate God by doing it, not because I like people to say 'oh, what a splendid person', but because by doing so I will be entering into a secret pact with my God. And even if no one else sees me, my God is going to see me and bless me ”.

Throughout the Bible we see that God has a special love for generous widows, who give out of their poverty and their fragile condition. The Bible not only tells us about the widow of Sarepta, who fed the prophet Elijah during a time of famine on earth. He also tells us in the New Testament of another generous widow who touched the heart of Jesus because of her deep generosity towards God.

The Bible says that the rich went to the temple and gave a lot of money and put it in the coffers, but there was a widow who only had one peso to buy a coffee, and she came to the temple and had so much love for God that she took the only thing that was left, his only sustenance - it was all he had in the world, and he threw it into the urn of offerings. And what did she know that the Lord was watching her from a distance? The eye of God registers everything, and observed the generous gesture of this humble woman. And the Bible records these things so that we understand important spiritual principles.

There is nothing you can do that God does not see. Not even the intimate movements of your soul are outside the vision of God. Don't ask me how He can do it, because that's beyond the mind to explain, but God knows. Even the fleeting thoughts that happen to you in a microsecond, God registers them. And that is why we have to walk like this, knowing that everything we do, even if no one else sees it, is seen by God. And He will reward us according to our actions, whether public or secret.

This widow did not know that the Lord was there, looking perhaps from a stairway in the temple, looking at the people below him, how the rich gave from their abundant money, and this widow, from their deep poverty. And Jesus turned to his disciples and said, “Look, guys, did you see that scene? Those rich give a lot of money, but they give from the excess they have. It costs them nothing. They give, let's say, a thousand pesos, but it is because they have a million pesos in the bank. And for them 100 pesos or a thousand pesos is nothing. They don't feel it. One says 'wow, he gave a thousand pesos, imagine what offering' ".

Now, for this widow, those ten pesos that she gave represented everything she had. And that, proportionally, was much more than those thousands of pesos that those rich had given and that God ultimately does not need ... for God ten pesos or a trillion pesos, it is nothing, because He owns everything the universe.

But what God likes is the inner movement of the heart. You understand? God was pleased with the sacrificial gesture of the widow. What that action of desperate preference towards God, of faith in Him, of militant and fierce love for Him represented. And the Lord Jesus declared: “That woman gave more in the eyes of the Father, than those rich men, because they gave in the comfort zone, of the ordinary, of what does not cause them pain or discomfort. This offering does not threaten their economy, it does not threaten their well-being, it does not threaten their survival, nothing. They give from their excess, not from their poverty, like the widow.

But this woman got into the zone of adventure, of discomfort, of risk, of possible death, of recklessness, and that is why the Lord liked this woman's offering much more, and surely she was blessed and approved Oh my God.

We need to fully understand that deep principle of generosity towards God and others, because there is a great secret of how to unleash the blessing of God, and how to make the power of God run in our lives in all dimensions. When we learn to always give, to give sacrificially, generously, in the name of the Lord, we unleash God's favor in our lives. The sources of long-term prosperity and blessing open up in our favor, and we can live blessed lives filled with divine provision.