Thanksgiving has been celebrated for hundreds of years, but Black Friday didn’t become a common label for what used to be the busiest shopping day of the year until 1981. Cyber Monday was proclaimed by the National Retail Federation in 2005 but has since become the biggest buying day of the year.
Giving Tuesday, however, was not developed until 2012. Giving Tuesday appears to be an afterthought to the spending that happens on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
God’s design, however, is that generosity should be a forethought, not an afterthought.
Proverbs 3:9 teaches, “Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops.”
Although the generosity that happens on Giving Tuesday is a welcome blessing, God’s preference is that we give before we spend, not after.
