As a leader you possess the created capacity and responsibility to be generous as God is generous, dispensing the sacrificial generosity of God to those around you by being supremely and wastefully generous with your time, talent, and treasure.
Supreme generosity is at the very core of your nature! Generous is an attribute that God gave to you. You were created to be gloriously – even wastefully – generous. It is part of your created nature and divine responsibility, as a bearer of God’s image, to be supremely generous with your time, talent, and treasure.
Yes, the story of the greedy king who learned to excel in the grace of giving is a wonderful example. But what better example can be found than in the supreme, inexpressible generosity of God, the King of Kings? Supreme generosity is at the very core of God’s nature.
God the Father generously created and sustains the universe.
God the Son generously gave His life that you might live an eternally abundant life.
God the Holy Spirit generously equips you with divinely originated abilities that enable you to play a unique and strategic role in transforming every corner of culture for God and for good.
Supreme generosity is as the very core of your nature! Excelling in the grace giving is not an abstract, dusty, theological notion. God is exuberantly, cheerfully, and lavishly generous. God’s acts of generosity are transformative. God’s generosity is real. God’s generosity changes things. God loves to give.
In his masterful collection of daily devotional poems, The Diary of an Old Soul, the Victorian poet, novelist, and Christian fantasy writer, George MacDonald (1824 – 1905), described God’s generosity as “gloriously wasteful.” In his poem for March 2, MacDonald wrote, “Gloriously wasteful, O my Lord, art Thou.” [i]
God created you to be gloriously and wastefully generous. The generosity of your time, talent, and treasure also changes things. In fact, in the final analysis, it may be the only thing that ever changes things. And like the greedy king, you too will learn that you are the true benefactor of your own generosity. Like the greedy king, you, too, will experience great joy and fulfillment as you learn to excel in the grace of giving.
Furthermore, God takes great joy and delight in watching His people cheerfully and lavishly – even wastefully – bestow gifts of their time, talent, and treasure in changing people and the world about them. God gives cheerfully and loves those who cheerfully give. When you are generous, you fill the earth with the glory of God.
Generosity is the “krypton” of leadership. The element krypton, appearing on the periodic chart of elements is, basically, an inert chemical. But, when used in fluorescent bulbs, krypton makes the light whiter and brighter. When used in laser lights, krypton makes them more powerful and precise. Like the element krypton, rich generosity lights up leadership – leadership that separates and distinguishes great leaders from good leaders. Great leaders excel in the transformative, wasteful generosity of their time, talent, and treasure.
You are generous.
You are a leader.
This is the truth about leadership.
This is the Genesis Principle of Leadership.
Now go out and brighten the world with your generosity!
[i] MacDonald, George, The Diary of an Old Man: 366 Writings for Devotional Reflection, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, Minneapolis, 1994.
Yes, the story of the greedy king who learned to excel in the grace of giving is a wonderful example. But what better example can be found than in the supreme, inexpressible generosity of God, the King of Kings? Supreme generosity is at the very core of God’s nature.
God the Father generously created and sustains the universe.
God the Son generously gave His life that you might live an eternally abundant life.
God the Holy Spirit generously equips you with divinely originated abilities that enable you to play a unique and strategic role in transforming every corner of culture for God and for good.
Supreme generosity is as the very core of your nature! Excelling in the grace giving is not an abstract, dusty, theological notion. God is exuberantly, cheerfully, and lavishly generous. God’s acts of generosity are transformative. God’s generosity is real. God’s generosity changes things. God loves to give.
In his masterful collection of daily devotional poems, The Diary of an Old Soul, the Victorian poet, novelist, and Christian fantasy writer, George MacDonald (1824 – 1905), described God’s generosity as “gloriously wasteful.” In his poem for March 2, MacDonald wrote, “Gloriously wasteful, O my Lord, art Thou.” [i]
God created you to be gloriously and wastefully generous. The generosity of your time, talent, and treasure also changes things. In fact, in the final analysis, it may be the only thing that ever changes things. And like the greedy king, you too will learn that you are the true benefactor of your own generosity. Like the greedy king, you, too, will experience great joy and fulfillment as you learn to excel in the grace of giving.
Furthermore, God takes great joy and delight in watching His people cheerfully and lavishly – even wastefully – bestow gifts of their time, talent, and treasure in changing people and the world about them. God gives cheerfully and loves those who cheerfully give. When you are generous, you fill the earth with the glory of God.
Generosity is the “krypton” of leadership. The element krypton, appearing on the periodic chart of elements is, basically, an inert chemical. But, when used in fluorescent bulbs, krypton makes the light whiter and brighter. When used in laser lights, krypton makes them more powerful and precise. Like the element krypton, rich generosity lights up leadership – leadership that separates and distinguishes great leaders from good leaders. Great leaders excel in the transformative, wasteful generosity of their time, talent, and treasure.
You are generous.
You are a leader.
This is the truth about leadership.
This is the Genesis Principle of Leadership.
Now go out and brighten the world with your generosity!
[i] MacDonald, George, The Diary of an Old Man: 366 Writings for Devotional Reflection, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, Minneapolis, 1994.
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your call and exhortation to be generous are much needed, especially these days as many people negatively react to the "financial crisis" and do let allow God to show Himself strong and generous. Jim Hill
Excelling in the grace of giving is a central grace of Christian maturity - perhaps the laboratory for growth. "As you excel in everyting ... see to it that you also excel in this grace of giving." (2 Corinthians 8:7) Dick
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