A very young man has helped me to learn a lot about myself and my motives for generosity. His name is Jasper and he’s fifteen months old. You might wonder what a boy that age could teach a sixty year old man. He can’t say more than a few words (at least that Grampy can understand), he really started to walk just a little while ago. But what lessons I have learned from him!
Jasper lives about 400 miles from us, so we can’t just “drop over” to visit him and his parents. We need to plan our schedule well in advance, because all of us are busy. The travel means two days of driving or a flight and rental car. Because our son and daughter-in-law’s home is small, we need to get a hotel room. And of course we like to treat them to a meal as an expression of gratitude for their hospitality and rearranging their schedule to accommodate us. Believe me, I ‘m not complaining. I’m explaining how it is.
The reality is that we love to go and spend time with Jasper (and his mom and dad). Other things take a lower priority because we would rather be with Jasper than those take those other options. We don’t buy him a lot of things. Judy loves to get him books or cuddly animals. Birthday and Christmas is more likely a gift for his savings and education than toys or clothes. All of that is simply an expression of one thing—we love this little guy to pieces! And he returns the favor. He plays peek-a-boo, sits on our lap while we read his books, 
gives us big hugs, and smiles a 
smile that melts stone.
The lesson we have learned is that love is the greatest motivator we have ever experienced. Even though some expense and inconvenience may be involved, they are really insignificant compared to the love and joy that we receive in return.
So here’s the lesson I have learned: When we are full of love, we give joyfully and are grateful for the opportunity to give ourselves to the one we love. The financial resources and time invested are rewarded many times over because we have been with someone we love and who loves us in return. When we apply this same principle to our relationship with God, the results are the similar, yet eternal. Because we love God, we want to show Him our love, bless Him, delight His heart, and just spend time with Him.
Generosity flows from a heart filled with love. It’s not just money or possessions that are reflected in our generosity, but our time, energy, talent, love, passion, and truly all that we are or have. Since it all belongs to God anyway, sharing it with Him becomes a delight, not a burden or obligation.
So, where is your heart? What holds you back? What is most important in your life? 
Answering those questions will help remove roadblocks to living a generous, joy-filled life.
We, of course, can so identify with rearranging our lives to be able to spend snippets of time with these precious little creatures called grandchildren!
Your point of how we can rearrange our lives for grandchildren because of our all-encompassing love for them transferred into our lives as Christians is powerful! Do we rearrange and pre-plan our priorities, energies, and time spent with God with anything like the same fervor? OUCH!