There is a tendency, especially during uncertain financial times, for people to hoard their possessions and money. Hoarding can also happen with relationships, when you don’t want that person to be with anyone else – ever. Hoarding is not saving. Hoarding is when you gather all you can and hold on to it without giving to anyone else. It doesn’t help you like you think it does.

Yes, God wants you to save. But there’s a balance between saving for the future and paralyzing the future by clinging too tightly to what you have.

Proverbs 13:22, “A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children.”

Proverbs 21:20, “In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has.”

But hoarding is not saving and the selfishness of hoarding actually makes one poorer in the end.

Proverbs 11:24 “One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.”

Proverbs 11:25 “A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.”
 

An examples of generosity: Ed Taylor, Father of Tammy Taylor, purchased the website domain name for the Jesus Christ show (to protect it from Internet squatters) and gave it willing, accepting no reimbursement or payment at all. He works with his daughter, Tammy Taylor, and I would like to reward them with telling all of you of their website should you need the products they sell. The site is: http://www.tammytaylornails.com/.

Thanks to them and their kindness you are reading this today on thejesuschristshow.com

When you give freely it encourages others to do the same.

**Additional show notes**

On the show this week we spoke briefly about arguments for the existence of God. Below are stripped down versions to whet your learning appetite…please go and investigate them at length for your own edification.

The Cosmological Argument/Argument from Contingency

Very simply put the argument contends:

a) Everything in the universe has to point outside itself to explain its own existence (i.e. the tree points to the acorn that points to the tree, that points to the acorn, etc.) therefore, everything in the universe is contingent (dependant) on something other than itself.

b) If everything in the universe is contingent (dependant) upon something other than itself then the universe as a whole must be contingent on something other than itself.

c) The universe is contingent (dependant) upon a creator/God.

The Teleological Argument / Argument from Design

Very simply put this argument contends:

a) The universe, the earth, humanity are too complex, orderly and purposeful to have occurred accidentally.

(Example: You would never look at Mt. Rushmore and believe it was created accidentally by rain and erosion.)

b)Therefore, the universe, the earth, humanity must have been created (or designed) by an intelligent, purposeful being.