God's Very Nature Shows that He's a Giving God

God gives because giving flows from who he is. John writes that anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love (1 John 4:7-8). Love gives. It shares. It provides for others at cost to itself. This isn't just something God does occasionally when he feels generous. Giving is woven into his eternal nature.

We see this within the Trinity itself. Before creation, before time began, the Father loved the Son. Jesus spoke of the glory that I had with you before the world existed (John 17:5). The Father gave this glory to the Son. The Son loves the Father and does what pleases him (John 14:31). The Father gives all things into the Son's hand (John 3:35). This divine generosity existed before the universe came into being. God didn't start giving when he made the world. He has always been the Giving One.