Living Simply 3

From Randy Alcorn's Money, Possessions and Eternity (these posts are intended to whet your appetite to buy the book!):

We should live more simply--and give more generously--because we're God's pipeline.

Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolios should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds. If we forget that we're God's stewards--his delivery drivers--it's like FedEx or UPS forgetting that what they carry in their trucks doesn't belong to them. When that happens, deliveries grind to a halt and people don't get what they need.

God comes right out and tells why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing god's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Cor 8:14, 9:11)