Ten verses later, this is how he says it. 1 John 4:7 – “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone that loves is born of God, and knows God”.
My question is, before we get into the logistics of everything, do you know him? Do you know him?
If you’re not sure, are you willing to adjust your life to develop a Tzedakah spirit?
Are you willing to genuinely ask of God: God instill a Tzedakah spirit in me. A right spirit, install a Tzedakah spirit in me.
May I be a person who isn’t waiting to go to heaven, but is actually looking around for opportunities to bring heaven to every place there’s hell that I see. May I be someone who had developed a Tzedakah spirit, for I want to know you.
#1 work; #2 wisdom; (stay out of debt; don’t put money in things going down in value).
#3, save 10% of your income (don’t trust the government to do it for you, they will go broke; see America, 14 trillion in debt, hard to get your head around).
#4, honor what’s on your life, and the life of others.
#5, seek the face of god, desperately desiring to know him.
I bless you to be a people who know god, know god, not in some definition we made up, but in the way he defines it: to take care of the poor and the afflicted.
May we be people who look around us, and seek to show the righteousness and generosity and the love of god to the world.