Fields Of Gold

by Andy Stanley

Giving was simple when I was a child. From an early age, I was taught to take one dime out of every dollar I received and put it in the offering plate. I never knew anything else. I was raised to believe that giving was just one of the things you did with money. It was effortless. And since I wasn’t really earning the money anyway, I never felt any fear associated with giving. I certainly wasn’t concerned that giving away money might be a threat to my quality of life. I always had plenty to eat and nice clothes to wear. But over the years, as my income increased, I began to notice a slight hesitancy in my giving. I was still giving a dime out of every dollar. But now it was adding up to hundreds or thousands of dollars at a time. And somehow that felt different.