The Giving Spirit

Friday. 2 Cor. 8: 7-15.

Liberality gets into a pretty high class here. It’s a grace, like love and faith and patience and gentleness. It’s a matter, not of purse and dollar marks, but of spirit and heart and touch with God. The poorest man in dollars may be liberal. The man whose giving takes six figures to tell may be close and stingy. It’s all a matter of the giving spirit, that is, the Jesus spirit, in the heart.

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