Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Generous or Expensive?

This was the conversation at dinner while we were talking about the boys getting ready for Awana tonight.

Mom "Do you guys know that tonight you are going to get jugs and we are going to try to collect money to fill them up for the next few weeks then bring them back to church"

Josh "Oh, (with his mouth full of chicken) let me go grab some." He then ran upstairs grabbed a bag full of pennies that he has been collecting and brought them down to bring to church.

Matthew then says to Me "I don't want to waste all my money on church mom"

Mom "Why don't you want to waste your money Matthew?"

Matthew "I want to use all my money to buy Joshua a really nice Christmas present"

Dad "Matthew, remember that the Bible tells us that we are to give our money first to what God wants us to give it to - and that means to our church and we will always have enough to use for things we want or need."

Mom "Matthew what kind of heart does God want us to have about our money?
***Now the word that I was looking for here was GENEROUS***

Matthew's answer..."Expensive"

We all laughed hard!! And yes - he gladly with a cheerful heart brought some money to church tonight also!