What kind of giver does God love?

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A cheerful giver.

God enjoys people who come into His Presence with gladness, with joy, with singing, with praise. God is blessed when we take pleasure in righteousness and rejoice to perform His will.

For most of us, most of the time, it is possible to look on the hopeful side of our circumstances and to be cheerful and content. We make the decision to be cheerful and hopeful. Given the same set of circumstances we can choose to find reasons to praise God, or we can choose to find reasons to blame people and God for our irritations.

It is a wise, victorious Christian who continually is blessing God and praising Him for His goodness. This is not to say that we should accept everything that happens to us as being from the Lord. Rather, when we are afflicted we should pray earnestly and continuously for the solution to our problems. In everything we are to give thanks to the Lord, at the same time letting our requests be made known to Him.

It is easy for Christian people to drift into bitterness and complaining as did Israel in the wilderness. It is easy because this is the nature of Satan and his demons. They always are bitter and complaining and people who are influenced by them always are bitter and complaining.

Every believer in the Lord Jesus should continually make an effort to cease complaining. If we strive to avoid complaining and grumbling the Spirit of God will assist us. Gaining the victory over complaining is an important aspect of the Christian discipleship.

The Lord Jesus Christ, for all His tribulations, was a Man of tremendous joy and peace. Jesus loves to serve God. He delights to do the will of the Father.

God loves a cheerful giver.