Tag: christian faith

Around the Christmas holiday seems to be the biggest season of the year when people tend to go out of their way to give to others. It makes us feel good when we can give to someone less fortunate than ourselves.

But shouldn’t it be this way all year round?

Because as a Christian I believe this is something the Church should be practicing. Whether it’s by furnishing food to the needy, clothes or money to the poor, taking someone to the grocery store or to a doctor’s appointment, furnishing Christmas gifts to Children, if I truly love and believe in the Lord than I’ll do this happily. Look what the Bible says;

Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6:1-4

Christ tells us when we give to do in secret, don’t announce it, don’t talk about it, just do it. And, when we give we shouldn’t do it out of obligation we do it out of love for our fellow man that is less fortunate than ourselves. So we should always give willing because we have compassion for others. But look what else the Bible says;

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have fath but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, Go in peace; keep warm and well fed, but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

James 2:-17

See what I mean?

It’s our faith that spurs us into action because faith without action is dead. As Christians, we give because we have compassion for the less fortunate, because it’s within our hearts to do so. Just as God gave His only Son, the Lord Jesus, for us. But look what 2 Corinthians says;

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

2 Corinthians 9:6-8

We’re to give generously and cheerfully, not out of obligation or duty, but, out of love for our fellow man and out of faith in our Lord Jesus the Christ.