Were God a greedy God He would expect ninety percent of our earnings leaving us the remaining ten to support our needs, He doesn’t though. Instead, He asks exactly the opposite of our potential, one tenth, a tithe.
Have we excluded God out of our plans? Sure we have! Do we continue to exclude Him from what we want to believe is rightfully our world, our government, our lives? We not only exclude Him, we deny Him of what is rightfully His from the very beginning. Even worse, as a nation, a world, a people we deny He exist! We have declared He has no place in our government, our public buildings, and our schools. Pity us, it is no wonder we are under a curse as a nation with so much turmoil in our lives – we are robbing God.
This is not a sermon, but wait, yes, it is! We are truly guilty of “me-ism.” We have become a world of “what about me?” Our insatiable greed has consumed us, so we have no choice but to continue feeding our monster, because it’s demanding more and more. Nothing is good enough for us. And, since we can’t be satisfied with what we have created, we cry out in large numbers proclaiming we want “change.” What we have created for ourselves isn’t working for us anymore. Leaving God out is not a good thing. Robbing Him is worse yet!
We can have better and more but, we must first return to God. He says in (Malachi 3:10) “Test Me in this, and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.” In (Malachi 3:6-7) God says, “I the Lord do not change…return to Me, and I will return to you.”
When we return to God, giving back to Him what is His, believing in Him, He will prosper us. Until then by our own hands and greed we will continue to claw at the walls of the snake pit we have thrown ourselves into. Without God we can do nothing!
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