More Blessed to Give

The Million Dollar Life

By William M. Self, Sr.

What is your key to blessing today?

Living is giving, dying is taking

 

More Blessed to Give

My family had the opportunity

to go on a vacation together.

Weeks before we left we sat around the

dinner table after church on Sunday as

 we do every week and discuss our plans.

One of those Sundays, I gave our

 kids and grandkids a challenge.

The challenge was to do random

 acts of kindness on vacation.

Each day I would ask if anyone

 had done an act of kindness.

It was neat to hear the responses.

Sandy and I were spending some time to

 ourselves and stopped at a restaurant.

We split a meal as we always do

 to save money and eat healthy.

At the end of our meal, Sandy leaned

across the table and spoke softly and

said I think we should pay the tab for

 the couple at the table next to us.

It took me by surprise, but

I thought it was a great idea.

So when the waitress came by we

asked her for the couple’s bill.

We told the waitress when they asked

for their tab to tell them it has been

paid for and God loves them.

The waitress who had already done

a good job of serving us, came back

with their tab and began to talk to us.

We could see her heart was filled

with joy at our act of kindness.

We got up to leave and the couple at the table

 next to us having no idea what was going on

looked up and smiled and said have a good

 day as if they were saying thanks.

I remember driving off in my dad’s 200

thousand mile Saturn we were using and

feeling like I was driving a Rolls Royce

and the richest man in the world.

Nothing I spent money on for that trip gave

 me as wonderful feeling as picking up the

tab of a perfect stranger anonymously.

Studies find it is better and healthier

 to give than receive.

Get that feel better, getting better,

staying better feeling.

Try giving today.

 

    

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 1:18-19 NIV

18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be

enlightened in order that you may know the hope

 to which he has called you, the riches of

 his glorious inheritance in the saints

Acts 20:32-35 NIV

32 "Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 33 I have not coveted anyone's silver or gold or clothing. 34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions. 35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said:

'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"