Year after year at the State Fair, a farmer in the Midwest won the blue ribbon for his prize corn. He was interviewed by a reporter who was surprised to find that the farmer made a practice every year of sharing his best seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to do that?” asked the reporter. “Your neighbors also enter their best corn in competition with you at the fair!”

The farmer explained, “The wind picks up the pollen from the ripening corn and carries it to the other fields. In the cross-pollination that follows, all the neighbors’ corn is affected. So I see to it that my neighbors are raising quality corn in order to protect my own crop.”

This is the divine law of reciprocity (giving and receiving). Jesus said, “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over” (Luke 6:38). When we share our blessings they are multiplied back to us. Jesus also said, “Whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them” (Matthew 7:12). Who wants to walk in the Spirit?