Awesome truth!
No matter what it is we give away - time, talent, treasure - to God directly or to a needy neighbor in obedience to Love's Desire, by the very act of giving it we receive increase! On the other hand, whatever we seek to keep, to hoard or to store up rots, rusts, is devoured and lost.
"He rebukes the Devourer for our sakes!" ~Malachi 3:11
We all get the same 24-hour allotment daily, but some of us get it in "full measure, pressed down and overflowing!" Awesome truth!
I've heard a parable of this truth, a demonstration of it: Our day is a glass jar. We have items to fit into the day that are of various importance. The big important things are rocks. Those of lesser importance are like sand. The rest is all like water. If we put the rocks in first, then sprinkle in the sand, then add the water, it all fits. But if we start with sand or water, the bigger items, of real importance, won't find room.
Oh, let us give the firstfruits to God, even of our days! And trust that in this good first-giving He will provide of His Storehouse sufficiency for all the rest! Amen!
Amen.