The Foundation of (Our) Generosity: God's Character

I love, love, love how the NLT puts 2 Cor 9.10: For God is the one who provides seed for the sower and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you. This grounds God's provision AND our generosity in God's own character. It all flows from him, which is a reason for both humility and profound gratitude. Humility because I realize that, despite my own opinion, what generosity that can be traced to my character comes from God's blessing me in the first place. Profound gratitude because one of the very reasons for God's generosity to me is so that I might have enough with which to be generous to others.

O Lord God, forgive me for how I often try to steal your glory by attributing generosity to myself rather than to you and to your blessing in my life. I understand that all of what you have given could be (rightfully) taken away in an instant. May I not pursue the things you have given, but the One who has given them. And may I bless others; be radically generous to others because you have been radically generous with me.