Wow, that is not something that I would never want to be a part of and yet I realize now that for a massive part of my life I was stealing from him. In Malachi God speaks to his people about tithing. He calls them a wicked group and that he is ready to judge them because of their misguided ways. They have not been tithing. 

 

God actually says here in this spot… “Test me”. We are told not to test God in many places of his word but he says here that if his people were to tithe he would open up the windows of heaven and rain down upon them blessing. 

 

Hmm does that mean that we are suppose to be rich. Because he puts no other stipulation on it. He says only to bring in the tithe. That’s it, tithe and I will open up the windows of heaven. Now the argument can be made that he is not specifically saying that it’s finances he will bless us with, but it also would not exclude finances. So why am I not rolling in the money?

 

Cause what I see is not a blessing that has been poured out of the windows of heaven, maybe leaked from the crack in the floor but that is it. Now if we look at this in a way different from finances, then I see the blessing.

 

My marriage is doing better than I even thought it was possible. We now have two unbelievable kids. I would never change any of it for the world. The kids have both been such a huge blessing to Sarah and I that I can’t even begin to explain how important they have been to us.

 

Does God pour out his blessing upon us?

 

Absolutely. Does it mean that we will have tons of money, probably/ possibly not but I do know one thing about it, he will always take care of us and make sure that we are able to live.

 

I love that he pours out upon us and all we have to do is give him what is his. Now that is a God worth serving…

 

Later