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Generosity Leads to Financial Security

  • Rev. Ronald Stelzer
  • December 7, 2022
Generosity Leads to Financial Security

My car radio is usually tuned to the Family Radio station, 88.9 FM locally. It so happens that as I drive to work, besides the seasonal Christ-centered music, they have a daily Bible quiz. Today’s three questions were based on 1 Timothy 6, directed toward the rich, which probably all who read this are–compared to most Earth-dwellers.

Question 1:

What are rich people to do?

Answer: “Do not be arrogant or set your hopes on the uncertainty of riches (cf. FTX), but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.”

Question 2:

How are we to use our riches?

Answer: “Be rich in good works, be generous and ready to share.”

Question 3:

What does God promise to those who do?

Answer: “They are storing treasures for themselves as a good foundation for the future.”

In other words, in God’s Economics 101, generosity leads to financial security. You can’t take it with you, but you can send it ahead by giving it away. It’s not he who dies with the most toys wins. The big winners are those who, when the final horn sounds, have given the most away, according to what they had, for the love of God and their neighbor (any in need within reach, aka the Good Samaritan).

Generosity Leads to Financial Security

About The Author

Pastor: Rev. Ronald Stelzer is a 3rd generation minister in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and 2nd generation teacher and coach in Lutheran schools. He was raised in a six-child family in Kansas and Indiana, graduated from St. Paul’s Lutheran School and Concordia Lutheran High School in Fort Wayne, Davidson College in North Carolina and Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and Fort Wayne. He and wife Margaret of 35 years have six grown children and six grandchildren. He has served two years in sports ministry with Athletes in Action, a year in youth missions with Ongoing Ambassadors for Christ, four years as chaplain/teacher/coach at his high school alma mater, and 35 years as pastor of Our Savior, where he helped found and lead Our savior New American School 28 years ago.

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