Be A Cheerful Giver!
"Will a man rob God?
Yet you have robbed Me!"
Malachi 3:8
In the final book of the Old Testament, the last of the
Hebrew prophets urged the Israelites, those who had
returned from Babylon to restore the nation of Judah,
to make some improvements. The people are lapsing
into complacency and apathy.
An area that needed changing, their personal giving
patterns. They failed to consistently give one tenth of
their income to the Lord. Malachi put it as sharply as
he knew how. They were robbing God!
“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may
be food in my house. Test me in this,’ says the Lord
Almighty,
‘and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven
and
pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough
to store it’” (Malachi 3:10, NIV).
This is the only time in Scripture we’re invited to test or try God.
When we give generously, systematically, and cheerfully to Him,
He will open “the floodgates of heaven.” What a promise! What
a challenge! Imagine the floodgates of heaven sliding open!
God loves a cheerful giver!
"One of the reasons I tithe is because by doing it, every
year and every month and every week, I am proving in
my own heart that God’s truth is indeed trustworthy.
He will take care of us."
David Jeremiah
