A wierd source sent this to me today and thought it was worth sharing:

‘To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.’  When God takes something from your grasp, He’s not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.  Concentrate on this sentence… ‘The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.’

I have often time used Pslams 23:5 “…my cup runneth over” as imagery along these same lines. If you have a cup full of blessings and you want to keep them, than the natural thing to do is to put a lid on them. That way they don’t get away. A lid is very effective in doing that but the problem with the lid is that when you seal anything in for an extended period of time it becomes will become stale and old.

So today’s blessings, if held on to, will become something stinky that you are carrying around. The other thing to remember about the lid is that not only does it keep stuff in… it also keeps stuff out. So by sealing your vessel you stop the flow of anything new to come in.

By allowing your cup to run over, you become a blessing to others by allowing your old blessings to be new blessings for others. You also, as mentioned above, make room for new blessings. That is the challenge of generosity… will you live an open or closed hand life?