Generosity & Kings

Enter 6th October 2020. It was my birthday! I had been counting it down for 28 days, posting how many days were left to my birthday, using my best photos so that people wouldn’t suffer finding what to use to post on their statuses this day!

Smart right? Anyway, I LOVEEEE parties. I am that guy who organizes surprise parties for close friends, and naturally, one hopes to receive something that will blow his or her mind away;

My best friend, Sam, booked me for lunch. I kept raising my hopes, telling him, ’We’ll make it snappy as some other people might want to take me out as well.’

After that day, I realized there were no people at all! ‘They were all in my head’. I had even made it hard for my inner-circle mates to pull off a surprise that day, though they somehow managed to. We were only four for lunch, and yes, the Café Javas team came singing for me as my thoughts had drifted away. My festive mood returned and I thank them for their thoughtfulness, and also all those who sent genuine messages to me.

I still continued to expect a big cake with my happy face on it, from any group of friends that I have. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday all passed. The truth began to unfold. There was no cake coming from anybody! I started to think; perhaps I hadn’t caused enough impact to be worth a cake (ha-ha)…The devil can lie!

Oh well, I ordered for a cake and took it to my family back in L’O as my siblings were returning to school and they had hoped to have a feel of my day’s felicitations. They got me a Versace watch. Oh, how elated I was!

I still continued expecting a mega party from somewhere, but 3 weeks have passed and someone just asked me how she hadn’t been invited to any party of mine, and I asked her if she had bothered to find out if there was any at all! One of those evenings, as I took a walk with God in the cool of the evening, He must have known what was on my heart that He immediately explained something that changed my perspective. He said,

“Kings are easily celebrated by fellow kings, or those dearest to them. They can’t however, expect the peasants within the kingdom to afford to fundraise a kingly celebration. The peasants naturally position themselves as takers and those who are brave enough are those who will go out their way to bring the best they can just like the Wise men did.”

He continued, “The peasants can expect a prestigious celebration from the king unto them however. Why? Kings are givers, and the greater can’t be blessed by the lesser. Stop expecting gifts from peasants son. Kings give, even on their birthdays!”

Think about it! People can expect His Excellency, Yoweri Museveni (the President of this country, for those reading this and aren’t familiar with Uganda) to throw them a banquet for perhaps winning a campaign (since its the season) but no one will be willing to contribute cash towards the banquet!

On the other hand, if H.E, suggested that some random citizen prepared a party for his victory, which obviously could have not less than 1000 people, that person will probably begin by sending in an exaggerated quotation which could cater for 10 times more the original number causing you to think that H.E is the head of the World Bank!

Why so? The civilian is trying to find a window to grab a profit that would turn his fortune around!

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The words God said are for you if you’ve always been generous to a whole bunch of people who have positioned themselves as receivers! Always in-boxing you on their birthdays to send them cash and you truthfully do, not out of coercing but because you know that generosity is part of who you are and by it you stand.

The bible says ‘give, and expect nothing in return.’ (Luk 6:35) Are you a king? Are you a queen? The sad news is; you are going to keep giving others and not expect anything back from those that you give to! The good news is; generosity is a law, just like gravity! You don’t need to tell gravity by saying ‘look, I have thrown up a stone, make it fall back.’ Gravity will do its job!

Generosity is also a spirit. Somehow, it notices every time you give and remembers to return what you gave, multiplied, and running over in your bosom. Those who are always on the receiving end, the law also sees you; Proverbs 11:25 says when you water (give to) others, you shall also be watered (given to freely without coercing someone to) I challenge you to cross over from being a peasant, otherwise you’ll beg the rest of your life!

I might not have got the party I imagined, but I received 270,000/- worth of birthday messages, extra gifts from loved ones and royalty friends and had some king and queens treat me to a low-key meal with fat love!

(Please note that I’m not doing this to guilt-trip some of you. I’m neither doing this to remind you of any party. I needed to share with you that word from God. You’ll need it because if you desire to be a very rich person, you must understand the law of generosity pertaining to you as a king or queen)

Thanks for reading…