Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.Sometimes I've felt like this verse was being used as a club, when somebody's cause wasn't being supported enough. I remember an old comic when I was a kid, where a guy is sitting with a scowl on his face in the pew and this verse is in the background. In the next frame, he puts a big smile on his face as he drops money in the offering plate, then goes back to scowling in the final frame.
I honestly can't say that I'm a cheerful giver, just a regular one. I do most of my giving automatically, and impersonally where I can. While I have chosen to give to the thing I do give to, I can't say that it's cheerfully, but it is the almost always purposefully, not out of obligation or guilt.
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