“A
tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the
trees,
belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.”
Leviticus 27:30
belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.”
Leviticus 27:30
However there is a bigger reason than
any of those and it is so big that I feel wholly inadequate to explain it.
God tells us that our giving to the Lord is Holy.
Don’t fall into the trap that says that if you give ten percent of your
income (tithe means tenth) to the Lord, you will earn God’s blessing.
You already have the Lord’s blessing and nothing you can do for him can
cause him to bless you more. The
reason to move toward becoming a tither and beyond is simply God’s love for
you issuing in your love of God and the desire to become more and more
Christ-like. It’s a love
thing. It’s a trust thing.
As I mentioned before, Kathy and started out by giving a tenth of our
income to the Lord and it has been a neat and gratifying thing to have grown
from there. Yet what is Holy unto
the Lord, is not the written check, rather it is the part of us that God has
taken hold of through our giving.
As you choose the percentage of your
income that you will give to the Lord in 2015, keep this incredible verse in the
forefront of your mind. If
there is a degree to which your giving reflects God’s having taken hold of you
(to whatever degree), then your offering on Sunday will be a Holy Offering.
That’s an incredible thought that you and I, yes even us, can
make do anything at all that He would deem holy.
Yet so it is. Sunday’s
offering will be a holy offering.
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