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Where Your Treasure Is
A monthly stewardship update from the CCCCMay 2011
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This newsletter is developed by the leadership team of the Comprehensive Campaign, "Sharing His Vision - More Than We Can Imagine".

"Where Your Treasure Is" is an email devotional from the CCCC office to your inbox around the 15th of every month, to remind us of biblical principles of stewardship.  This initiative was launched because our Lord has said much about Stewardship, and all His people are to be listening.  I hope you find these devotionals helpful.   If you do, feel free to forward this publication to others, inviting them to join our mailing list to receive it directly in the future.  If you do not wish to receive this monthly devotional an unsubscribe link is provided on the bottom of this page. Today's devotional focuses on the connection between giving and love, and God's exhortation that like Christ His disciples would aim for this holy combination.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

I love my part-time job.  Few of you know that on certain days of the year I assist my son who delivers flowers for a living.  When Valentines Day and Mothers Day come around he needs a lot of help.  I truly enjoy seeing the happiness that comes to the face of the person when I deliver the bouquet.  Flowers say a thousand things or as someone has said, "Flowers say it best."

  


"Consider the lilies of the field, How they toil not yet even Solomon in all his finery never surpassed the beauty that God, our Father, gave to them. (Matthew 6:28-29)"  How gracious is our heavenly Father to give the beauty we see all around us, in the heavens, in flowers and in the people he brings into our lives.  God is Spirit yet he enjoys providing us with the beautiful bounty that our eyes and ears behold and experience daily.

 

Even greater is the enjoyment we receive when God blesses a new believer in Christ.  We have witnessed this in our Conference in exciting ways through our ministry of church redevelopment and church multiplication.  The blessings are manifold, first to the new believer, then to the one God has used to bring them to Christ, then to ones God has led to give financially so that the Word of God can be sown and reaped.  All of us who make a contribution share in the beauty of the harvest.

 

Many of you have joined the campaign, "Sharing His Vision", and are praying and giving to it.  Thus you are able to personally fully enjoy the beauty of the blessings.  Well done, good and faithful servants.

 

Someone recently pointed out to me that Christ, when confronted with the rich young ruler, was actually calling him to come alongside and become a disciples.  The material blessings he had accumulated turned out to be a non-blessing when he counted them as being more important than becoming a faithful follower of the LORD JESUS CHRIST.  The contrast to him is seen in he person of Moses in Hebrews 11:26, "Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward...for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible."  What a legacy.

 

Take heart!  Enjoy the beauty all around us and share in the beauty of HIS work through you and your gifts.

 

Tay Kersey,

CCCC Controller and member of the Campaign Leadership Team