One of the things that cause the blessings of God to reach us is learning to give, and at the same time is the only rule to receive something from God, now we must remember that the more blessed it is to give than to receive.
Giving is an act of giving to another; It is an act of grace. Grace gives with love and liberality; Grace grants, does not evaluate merits, does not condition. connotes to offer, donate or grant, freely and without being forced, something of value.
Giving more than receiving reproduces the character of Christ
Giving to the Christian, in the biblical context, implies reproducing the character of Christ. The Bible says Fullness in his commentary on the book of Acts (20:35): "It indicates that the giver adopts the character of Christ, whose nature it is to give". In this sense the attitude of giving and the character of the giver are closely related .
We give according to the fruit we produce, and produce what we are. An apple tree produces apples and not oranges or other fruit. It can not produce a fruit different from its nature. Jesus said that "by the fruit the tree is known." Since our life is figuratively illustrated as a tree, as Christians we need to answer the question: *** What kind of fruit is in my tree? *** We can not give what we do not have. The obligatory question is: *** How is our character, Christocentric or egocentric? *** The nature of our giving will depend on the response we give. If our character is Christocentric, our giving will be full of an attitude of love, altruism, generosity, generosity, sensitivity and empathy for the needs of the other; abundance mentality. On the contrary, if it is egocentric, it will be full of selfishness, interest and pettiness; scarcity mentality.
Giving is in the very nature of God. As expressed in 2nd. Corinthians 8: 9: "For you already know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who for your sake became poor, being rich, that you might be enriched with his poverty." As Christian believers, giving (with generosity and love) is also in our spiritual nature received from Christ. When we are born again, we receive the nature of God, who is love; and the Holy Spirit, enables us to give with love and generosity.
As Christians, giving is a vocation
Giving is an inescapable vocation to which every Christian believer is called, in accordance with the example that the Lord Jesus left to his disciples.
The Bible exhorts us, with priority, to cultivate a liberal attitude regarding giving, rather than an attitude of receiving. Now, this attitude does not emerge automatically; it needs to be worked, and even forced to grow and develop, until it becomes natural; a habit; a characteristic way of relating and orienting ourselves in our interaction with others. "Jesus did not say that it would be more natural or easy to give than to receive, but that it would be more blessed." 4
Receiving can be more natural than giving. Life is directed, at least in the whole process of its growth, by a continuous receiving. The baby complains with his crying food and the affection and attention of his mother. The husband and wife wait for each other for compliments and caresses towards each other. We all hope to receive. We all want to be recognized. We all want to be esteemed. There is in each breast a hungry heart to receive affection and recognition; and that, in principle, is not questionable. But the Christian life is fundamentally giving.
There are many people who go through life looking instead of giving. But life can not be built exclusively on the basis of what we receive, but on the foundation of what we give. A continuous longing to receive, without ever giving, develops a selfish and self-centered life; focused on one's own needs, and unable to see and feel the needs of others.
Few people conceive happiness from the point of view of giving. But to give is to live. Jesus Christ said that more blessed (happy and happy) is to give than to receive. This demands a profound change of paradigm, in addition to a commitment. It implies leaving our comfort zone. There is no way to give without compromising our time, or money, or energy, or resources of various kinds.