Acts 2:45 (ESV)
And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.
Perhaps there is no greater example of a life filled with the Spirit of God than a life that is given of themselves and all they have to meet the needs of others. God sustains us as we obey Him. Jesus, as He walked the earth demonstrated this first and foremost. Jesus told us about this life before His death:
John 15:12-15 (ESV)
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
He demonstrated this in His death:
Philippians 2:4-7 (ESV)
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
The early church, shown in the above text from Acts, demonstrated this type of life with each other. We miss this in our current church in today’s capitalist society. We first look to see how we can make money off the ministry before we just do the ministry of giving. Not true for all, but often true for most. God gives Him to us. We are to give us to others.
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