A Compelling Testimony: Maintaining a Disciplined Walk, Christlike Character, and Godly Relationships as God's Servant

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A Compe l l i ng Tes t imony

g. 2 Cor. 9.10 – He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

2. The exegetical interpretation

a. God has so structured the moral world that you will always reap in proportion to what you sow.

b. For instance, if you only give a little bit of investment to your marriage, you will only get a little bit of return, however, if you give focused time and effort to your family, it will reap a large return.

c. The size of the harvest is proportional to the investment made.

d. This is the fundamental principle of all finance in the modern world.

3. The application of the principle to our personal discipline and testimony

a. The determination to give more in a certain direction will ensure that you will receive more in that direction.

b. The investment in our children: our decision for Beth not to work and invest in the children: what it produced

c. This principle underlies the reason certain people in certain fields have acquired such levels of accomplish ment, attainment, and expertise.