We need to be generous

One family won £61m on EuroMillions – and no doubt many others envied them.

Manchester United felt that £89m was a fair price for a new player. St Albans City, presumably, aren’t in quite the same league.

There’s a likely court case coming up for what would be the highest-ever divorce settlement at a cool £5 billion.

Most of us don’t live in such worlds. But instead of comparing ourselves with the super-rich, we need to think again.

At Christ Church, St Albans we’ve been looking at possessions: houses, cars, luxuries (a TV is a luxury, by the way), savings accounts.

We have been challenged to consider how much we should sell and what proportion of any savings we have we might release, to give to those who do not have.

We’ve compared ourselves, not with the lottery, ManU or the ex-wives of Russian tycoons, but with a school project in Lusaka, Zambia which we have supported for some years both in finance and in sending out teams.

Most people there have almost nothing – other than a great deal more happiness than many of us.

The Bible teaches Christians to be not super-rich but super-generous. Much is expected of those to whom much is given – and that is most of us.

But then Christians believe that Someone paid the greatest price of all to give to us the greatest gift of all.

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