In terms of finance, this verse is an absurd proposition. It seems highly unlikely that any finance expert or someone with average skill with numbers would admit that the more one gives, the more one will have. It is common sense that the numbers will be negative if the outflow exceeds the inflow.
However, the Bible
teaches that the more a person gives, the richer he becomes. The converse of
this theory is that the one who withholds will be the loser. In other words,
generosity never makes a person a pauper, but the opposite happens.
Jesus affirmed this
principle: “Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed
down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the
measure you use it will be measured back to you” (Luke 6:38).
Paul quotes Jesus as saying, “It
is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35).
Human Generosity is
rooted in God’s character. Apostle James describes God as someone who “gives
generously to all those who ask him” (James 1:5).
Generosity is not
giving away all that we have but meeting the needs of others in proportion to
what we have. It is an attitude of not withholding and letting our resources be
shared. The more we give, the more we are given to give. So, we become not big
storehouses of resources but wider channels of God’s blessings to others.
The generous givers
never run dry because they are like rivers of God, as the psalmist describes: “The
river of God is full of water” (Psa 65:9).
