7-day plan: Generosity and Money
What to do with what we have: recognize whose it is, give, be content and work.
One passage a day, with a question to think it over. Your progress stays on this device, no account needed.
Day 1 · Everything is God's
The earth and everything in it belong to YHWH
Of David. A psalm. The earth belongs to YHWH, and all that fills it, the world and those who dwell in it.
Psalms 24:1 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
What does this passage say about what God is like?
Day 2 · The danger of riches
Jesus: where your treasure is, there your heart will be also
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and woodworm destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor woodworm destroys, and where thieves do not dig through or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:19–21 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
Jesus says not to worry about tomorrow (v. 34). What worry could you hand to the Father today?
Day 3 · Giving gladly
For the meeting tent, everyone whose heart was stirred gives
And they came, every man whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, and they brought the contribution of YHWH for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. And they came, the men with the women, all who were generous of heart; they brought brooches and earrings and rings and necklaces, all kinds of articles of gold; and every man who waved a wave offering of gold to YHWH. And every man with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and rams’ skins dyed red, and fine skins, brought them. Everyone who set apart a contribution of silver and bronze brought the contribution of YHWH; and everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service brought it. And every woman wise of heart spun with her hands, and they brought what they had spun: the blue and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen. And all the women whose heart stirred them with wisdom spun the goats’ hair. And the chiefs brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece, and the spice and the oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense. Every man and woman whose heart moved them to bring something for all the work that YHWH had commanded to be done through Moses, the sons of Israel brought a freewill offering to YHWH.
Exodus 35:21–29 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
What situation in your life does this passage speak to?
Day 4 · Being content
The little of the righteous is better than the abundance of many wicked
Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.
Psalms 37:16 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
What does it invite you to do today, even something small?
Day 5 · Working and not stealing
The commandment is short: you shall not steal
You shall not steal.
Exodus 20:15 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
Who could you share this with this week?
Day 6 · Everything is God's
God declares: “Mine is the silver, and mine the gold”
‘Mine is the silver, and mine the gold,’ declares YHWH Tsevaot.
Haggai 2:8 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
What would you like to say to God after reading it?
Day 7 · The danger of riches
You cannot serve God and riches
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold on to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
Matthew 6:24 · Read the whole chapterTo think about
Jesus says not to worry about tomorrow (v. 34). What worry could you hand to the Father today?