Think You’re Too Young to Be Generous?

June 9, 2025

Series: Reset

Topic: Giving, Priorities

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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21 NIV

 

What is your heart set on? Getting an education, buying a home or starting a business?

Every morning Lina goes through a stack of photographs that sit on her kitchen table, pausing to pray for each person in the well-worn pictures. She’s never met these people, but she’s prayed for them for years. The men and women in the photos live all over the world and the goal of each of their lives is to share the message of Jesus’s love with their own people.

Lina prays, but she’s done more than that. Now widowed and in her late 80s, Lina has decided that there really isn’t anything else she needs in life. She has begun to systematically give her remaining money to help the people in the photos share the gospel. It’s where her heart is—what her heart beats for. Jesus talked about this very thing. He said, “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21 NIV).

“Well, that lady is old,” you might think. She’s had all the experiences of life, owned things and now she has extra to give away. I’ll give … if I have money left over when I’m old.” But you’d be wrong about Lina. For decades, Lina and her husband built their lives around what God says about money and our priorities. When the Bible says, “Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce,” (Proverbs 3:9) they did just that, year after year. When they read, “Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, ‘I will never fail you, I will never abandon you,'” (Hebrews 13:5) they believed it. With all their hearts … and their resources, year in and year out.

What do the things you treasure tell about where your heart is?

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