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•8 神能将各样的恩惠多多加给你们，使你们凡事常常充足，能多做各样善事。9如经上所记：
•“他施舍，周济贫穷；
•他的义行存到永远。”
•10那赐种子给撒种的，赐粮食给人吃的，必多多加给你们种地的种子，又增添你们仁义的果子。11你们必凡事富足，能多多施舍，使人藉着我们而生感谢 神的心。
在这段经文里，保罗经常重复说一些话。他一次又一次地使用“凡事”和“各样”这两个词。他应许说，神已经赐给我们丰盛的恩典，所以我们凡事常常充足，能多行各样的善事。我们可以仔细想一想“凡事常常充足”和“做各样善事”这两句话。当你有机会帮助某个需要帮助的人的时候，你是否缺乏资源？很可能是不缺乏的。
但我们的思想和目光，有时候变得短视。我们查看自己的支票账户和存款，我们担心钱会花光。也许花光对我们反而是好事，因为这样我们就可以信靠上帝会供应我们的每日所需！但这样的事情真的发生在你身上了吗？我们认为自己的资源有限，但是保罗提醒我们，我们的天父有无尽的资源，他使他的子民能够用来多多的施舍。
保罗引用了诗篇第112篇的一句话，这首诗篇描述了一个信徒充满祝福的一生。“他施舍钱财，周济贫穷。”这正是信主的人喜欢做的。他们施舍钱财，周济贫穷。这样做会给他们带来喜乐，他们相信使他们凡事常常充足的主那里还有更多。上帝把慷慨乐捐的事充满了喜乐！
祷告：主耶稣，我的慷慨永远也比不上你对我的慷慨！你将各样的恩惠多多的加给我。你给我的属灵恩赐常常充足！请让我也成为喜爱施舍，周济贫穷的人，以此来感谢你对为仁慈的祝福。阿们。
2 Corinthians 9: 8 And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 9 As it is written: “They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor; their righteousness endures forever.”10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 11 You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. (NIV)
Paul repeats himself often in this paragraph. He uses the word all and every over and over again. He promises that in ALL things at ALL times, having ALL that we need, we will abound in EVERY good work. Think about those ALL and EVERY statements for a moment. When an opportunity arose for you to help someone in need, have you ever lacked for resources? Probably not.
But in our mind’s eye, we sometimes become short-sighted. We look at our checking account or our savings, and we are afraid that we may run out. Maybe it would be good for us to run out, because then we could trust in God to give us our daily bread! But has that ever happened to you? We think we have limited resources, but Paul reminds us that our God in heaven has unlimited resources, from which he enables his people to overflow in generosity to others.
Paul quotes a verse from Psalm 112, a psalm which describes the blessed life of a believer. “They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor.” Every Fourth of July, the church I served used to have float in the parade. We would take buckets of candy and throw it to the children sitting on the curbs. It was so much fun. That’s what believers love to do. They scatter their gifts to the poor. It brings joy to their hearts to do it, and they are confident that “there is more where that came from.” God makes it so much fun to be generous!
Prayer: Lord Jesus, my generosity will never out do your generosity to me! You have blessed me in so many ways. Your spiritual gifts abound to me! Make me someone who in turn loves to scatter gifts to the poor out of thanksgiving for your gracious blessings. Amen.