{"id":59608,"date":"2022-09-04T13:50:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T13:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=59608"},"modified":"2022-09-04T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T13:50:25","slug":"beneficiaries-or-benefactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=59608","title":{"rendered":"Beneficiaries or benefactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;God, I pay my tithes, I support your work, I give to the needy, I shouldn&#8217;t be in this situation. *<b>Are you not a just God again?&#8221;<\/b>* This was the lamentation of a\u00a0 certain child of God as he faced a very\u00a0 challenging situation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">*<b>The bottom line of this lamentation is the sense or feeling that The Lord God is a beneficiary of our philanthropy or benevolence, and so He owes us a payback?<\/b>* Nothing can be further from the truth. Who are we without Him or what do we have that we did not receive from Him?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">*<b>&#8220;&#8230;For from Him and through Him and for Him are all things. To him be the glory forever!&#8221;<\/b>*<br \/>\n(Romans 11:36)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We are mere beneficiaries of God&#8217;s goodness and mercies. We do Him no favours giving back to Him all we got from Him in the first place. *<b>Grateful souls do not tithe kindness, they gladly pay back with thanks.<\/b>*<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u00a9 Buti Sam KPUTU<\/strong><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_220904_144618_750.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God, I pay my tithes, I support your work, I give to the needy, I shouldn&#8217;t be in this situation. *Are you not a just God again?&#8221;* This was the lamentation of a\u00a0 certain child of God as he faced a very\u00a0 challenging situation. *The bottom line of this lamentation is the sense or feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":59609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}