Created to Give

In the past few weeks, I kept hearing of this idea from different sources, and as I continue to meditate on it, it does bring fullness and joy to my heart to learn of this realization. It is this: We are Created to Give.

When I surrendered my finances to God, I realized that He will provide all my needs, because He knows what I need more than I do. So when realizing that I am created to give, then I know that He will also bless that which I set aside to give, which gladdens my heart. Because there is a certain joy in being able to give, and it said in Acts 20:35 that it is more blessed to give than to receive. I truly believe that, and so I have started to meditate on how to take what little I can set aside, and multiply it for the sake of increasing what I can give, and not take any penny away from it. And in the process, also explore and learn more about what God has gifted me with, and to embody that in the blessing that He pours through me. Because I feel this is the true directive for Christians, not to just have a job and life and family, but we are so uniquely designed, we should embrace what we are gifted with, and take extra time and effort to share that with the world, and because it is God that gifted us, it is in our very "DNA" to use these gifts for His glory!

So I meditated over what gifts I have developed in the past year of offline soul searching, and I have thoroughly enjoyed myself applying and learning two things: (i) artistic expression, and (ii) plant care and propagating. And so, with confirmation from the LORD, I will proceed to investing in propagating plants with my gifting budget (which I set aside on a monthly basis), and just give them to people as gifts. From my year of plant caring, I have experienced great joy and healing through the experience of taking care of and understanding plants, and I feel that it will become such a blessing for many others, especially as there are a lot of agricultural metaphors used in the Bible. It will be physically, emotionally and spiritually filling for those that I bless through these baby plants that I will grow for their sake. In terms of art, I will create art specific for edifying others, just little tiny pieces of art, through the different forms of sketching, painting, and sculpting that I have learnt in the past two years.

Looking forward into 2019 and onwards, my heart is filled knowing that I can be blessed through giving, and knowing that I will get to see what God does with it.

Be blessed.