Select Appropriately!
Genesis 18:7 – And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetch a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
Yesterday we saw that we should be time cautious and opportunity cautious also. The same way Abraham hasten Sarah his wife, he hasten his servant also.
Look at this, ‘a calf tender and good’; Abraham selected an appropriate and a befitting calf (gift) for his visitors. Giving is more than giving a gift, it is giving appropriately. It is giving a befitting gift.
In Malachi 1:7, the Lord warns against giving inappropriately. Beloved, for our giving to be valued, we need to select the ‘tender and good’ from the collection of what we want to give, then we do the giving cheerfully and willingly.
In 2 Samuel 24:24, David refused to give the Lord what hasn’t cost him. Also, in Genesis 4, Cain brought inappropriately (verse 3) and Abel brought appropriately (verse 4). God had respect on Abel’s, hence whenever a giving is done appropriately, the receiver of the gift have respect on the giver.
Shalom!
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