With no expectation:
The idea of giving not expecting anything in return is a trademark of God. It was a law in the Old Testament that God’s people were to give or lend to their brothers who could not repay them. To some, it was to keep them from going to jail. Giving was and is a means for receiving. Jesus said it in the Sermon of the Mount, that if you give you will recieve (Lk 6:38). In Deuteronomy, God told his people that when they gave without expecting anything in return, they would be blessed (Deut 15:10, Pro 11:25). It is one of the things that makes God who he is, that he thinks about those who cannot fend for themselves (Deut 10:18). When we cannot defend ourselves, God comes to our rescue and many times without anyone asking him. David knew that the only place his help would come from was the Lord (Ps 121:1-2). It is called God’s kindness.
Luke 6:35
35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
God, out of his kindness, defends the weak, feeds the poor, cares for the orphan and the widow, and provides for his creation. Jesus said that God feeds the birds of the air and dresses the lilies of the field. It is his kindness that his providence goes out into his creation. God is kind to the unthankful and to the evil. We are known to be children of God when we are kind, just as he is. Kind means to be mild and pleasant. Even when people are mean and nasty, dishonoring God, he is mild and pleasant with them. John says that God did not send his son to condemn the world but to save it (Jh 3:17), that is kindness. The expectation for the children of God is to be kind. Jesus said that if your enemy forces you to carry a brick for one mile, carry it for two (Mt 5:41).
To love your enemies, the Greek word used is agapáō, and it means to love in a moral sense. It is a kind thing to do. Because God is kind to the unthankful and the evil, his children are expected to do the same. He charges us to defend the poor and to do justice to the afflicted (Ps 82:3-4). The trademark of God’s kindness needs to be reflected in his children. Kindness or gentleness is one of the fruits of the Spirit of God (Ga 5:22).
Luke 6:38
38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Deuteronomy 15:10
10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
Proverbs 11:25
25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Deuteronomy 10:18
18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Psalms 121:1-2
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
John 3:17
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Matthew 5:41
41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
Psalms 82:3-4
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Galatians 5:22
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,