Good morning good people,
May the Lord give you peace and blessings in the Holy Spirit. It is 18th June 2025.
We reflect on 2 Corinthians 9:6–11 and Matthew 6:1–6, 16–18.
St. John Chrysostom reassures, “It is not enough to give—we must give with a cheerful heart. God loves that kind of giving.”
Giving is not a pleasure or a pressure—it is cheerfulness and bliss in motion.
What makes our faith radiant and distinct is not simply how often it commands us to give, but that it offers us the supreme model of generosity: Jesus Christ crucified. His sacrifice is the truest act of giving—freely offered, not forced, not formal, but full of love.
Prayer, almsgiving, and fasting are not merely personal spiritual disciplines. They are sacred channels for blessing others. If our prayer doesn’t move us toward compassion, if our almsgiving doesn’t uplift the needy, and if our fasting doesn’t deepen our solidarity with the suffering, then we must reexamine our motives. Selfishness has no place in the sacred.
It is not what you give, but how you give that stirs joy in another’s heart. Giving with grief, guilt, or out of social expectation drains the soul. But cheerful giving breathes life and divine presence into the act.
In giving, we mirror God’s very nature. Each small, secret act of love is seen—not by crowds, but by the One who dwells in secret. Not only in times of plenty, but especially in our poverty, we are called to give. For from the beginning, we were born to share—until the world taught us to hoard.
“God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work.” (2 Cor. 9:8)
St. Paul reminds us that God notices the cheerful giver, while Jesus teaches us that the holiest giving is done in secret, hidden from the applause of men but radiant in Heaven’s eyes. Let our giving be an echo of God’s love, not a trumpet of our ego.
May the Lord continue to bless our hearts, homes, and homelands through the fragrance of our selfless generosity.
God bless you.
Let’s recover the heart of cheerful giving—a heart that doesn’t wait for comfort or applause, but finds joy in loving like Jesus.