The other night I took the dog to my room and let her sleep with me in my bed. This was a treat for me, as the dog usually sleeps in Mom's room with her, and after Mom goes to bed, we don't usually get to see the dogs until she wakes the next morning. So it is a very real treat for me to have this particular well-behaved warm, fuzzy critter in bed with me for the whole night.
Mom likes sleeping with Ellie (our dog), and she's used to it, having done it for as long as we've had Ellie. Mom usually doesn't want Ellie away from her at night, but she let me keep Ellie. She said Yahweh told her to do it.
Yahweh gave me a gift! The gift of a night with Ellie. And He used Mom to give me it.
About a year ago, Yahweh gave me roses through another person whom He told to do so.
I used to think Yahweh gave gifts that were Spiritual or maybe gifts of time or more abstract things. I did not realize He could also give physical gifts until I received the roses. Yahweh has given me real, concrete things. (Not that I'm discounting the Spiritual gifts. These beautiful things could never be discounted, and are beyond words but not beyond the Word.) But the point is that Yahweh also gives physical gifts! His gift-giving is unlimited! It's awesome!
While I'm sure Yahweh could give you a physical gift by dropping something into your lap out of thin air if He wanted to, I have yet to see this happen. Yahweh created an order in this universe, and this order means that Yahweh operates in the physical realm mostly through mankind. Both of the times Yahweh has given me a physical gift, it was when He told someone else to do it. Yahweh gives gifts to men! Yahweh gives gifts THROUGH men! It is awesome!
When Yahweh gives gifts through men, two people receive the gift: the end recipient of the gift, and the person through whom the gift was given.
But if the people who hear Yahweh telling them to give a gift do not obey, then no one receives the gift. :(
I am blessed that so many people around me choose to obey Yahweh's prompting to give gifts. Some people call it sowing. As in, one sows a seed and is thereby blessed. I am completely blessed to be a member of an ecclesia full of sowers. I am blessed to have my mom, a sower. I am blessed by all the people who obey Yahweh that surround me. And I am blessed by Yahweh.
I, too, have given gifts, though people may not realize it, and they are not monetary. I don't make money yet, but soon I will, and then I will be able to sow even this. I am blessed to be a blessing!
HalleluYah!
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