Generosity: A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another

Source: The Maxwell Leadership Bible: Lessons In Leadership From The WORD OF GOD, By John C. Maxwell (Signature Series)

12 When the day began to wear away, the twelve came and said to Him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding towns and country, and lodge and get provisions; for we are in a deserted place here." Luke 9:12; NKJV

13 But He said to them, "You give them something to eat." And they said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people." Luke 9:13; NKJV

14 For there were about five thousand men. For He said to His disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of fifty." Luke 9:14; NKJV

15 And they did so, and made them all sit down. Luke 9:15; NKJV

16 Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven. He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. Luke 9:16; NKJV

17 So they all ate and were filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them. Luke 9:17; NKJV

Luke 9:12-17; NKJV

Generosity: A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another [Luke 9:12-17]?

God likes win/win situations. We see this in the account of the feeding of the five thousand. Jesus took one basket of fish and bread, blessed it, and fed multitudes. Whoever gave up his lunch basket in the beginning, received 12 times more at the end of the day. This is how generosity works.