SUBTRACT in order to MULTIPLY!

Our "spiritual stock market" works like this:  You invest your "treasure" (some of your talents and spiritual gifts) in God's organization....and He multiplies your investment!

Let me show you a few Biblical examples:  (1)  The boy who gave his lunch to Jesus....and Jesus multiplied it to feed over 5,000 people.  (2)  The widow's flour barrel and oil jar were nearly empty when God's prophet asked her to bake him a cake, which she did--and she discovered her flour and oil never ran out during the time of the famine.  (3)  The woman at the well gave Jesus a cup of water from the well--and He gave her from His well of "Living Water," and she never was thirsty again.

We're all given "treasures" (talents and godly gifts) to invest in God's work.  However, many people "bury" their gifts.  I've seen women who are "buried alive!"  I used to play tennis at a tennis club.  There are two classes of women to be seen there:  One group (who have well-to-do husbands) sit by the pool after they have played tennis--just lounging around for the rest of the day....and they do this day-after-day!  The other group of ladies come and play tennis--then skurry off to work or to vounteer somewhere.  They USE their talents to serve and assist others!  They don't "bury" their treasures!

II Corinthians 7:14 - But we have this TREASURE in earthen vessels (weak, fragile bodies), that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

Jesus asks us for what we have to give....and when we offer it to Him, He multiplies it and gives it back to us to use and to share with others.  You just can't outgive God!

A friend wrote this to me:  "Life is never too full to receive what others have to offer or too empty to share what we possess."

Give something away today--bless somebody by using your talent to inhance somebody's life or to encourage someone.  Don't "bury" your treasure....don't hoard your godly gifts....don't let them lay dormant and rust!