Abundance
We are so thankful for the wonderful ways God shares His abundance. Everything belongs to God. He made all things that are good. He shares with everyone of His abundance whether we love and serve or not He is sustaining our life. It is only reasonable for Him to delight in those who return their thanks and strive to obey His Word. We are made with the brainpower to decide if we will do good or bad. We have the privilege of choice for the Lord does not want robots to serve Him. He wants us to obey His Word because we love Him with all our heart.
In rendering God service it is shown in the way we treat each other. God loves every one the same but we cannot expect Him to bless us if we are not doing what He has told us to do. Some people He has blessed with an abundance of things because he expects them to share with others that do not have very much. In this way we are tested to see if we will share with the children of God who are our fellow man. This is one way of returning to God a portion of what He has given us.
Also God asks us to return one tenth of what He gives us to Him to show Him He is our God and not the money that we are trusting in and depending on for our sustenance. Our love to Him will make us return what He asks and is rightfully His. He has promised a blessing of opening the windows of heaven and pouring out these blessing so much that we would not be able to receive them all. This is a blessing to share with those about us. If we are asking for God to guide us and to save our soul and keep us from all evil then God will not give us more than we can handle if it will turn our heart from Him and make us loose our soul. Some people do not know how to use a lot of money.
The hard times will come. Trials have to refine our characters. Those who love the Lord will suffer as He suffered in order for us to be able to live with Him forever. If we hang on to Him He will not leave us nor forsake us. If for some reason we are separated from God it is not because He left us it is because we have left Him and are doing our own way and doing things that dishonor Him.
All heaven was put to work for the salvation of man. Jesus did what had to be done to give us eternal life. That was the shedding of His blood. So we should share and give all to Him from the love He gave to us.