The Transformed Giver - Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-19.) Being generous is better understood as a reaction than it is a command to obey. It’s like saying “go like that person.” The way the NT says it is not just to give. That’s easy to obey. The model is to be generous. People like Zacchaeus don’t have trouble being generous because it’s in reaction to how generous God has been to them. Maybe one of the reasons some of us struggle with generosity is not that we don’t want to, but that we seem to have become unaware again of the goodness of God towards us?