“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)
I get it. The law requires a tithe of people’s income to be given to the LORD’s storehouse. I also understand that people are blessed from heaven, as they give the tithe from their hearts. But it seems there is a danger here, too, namely the temptation to give the tithe not for the joys of obedience and faithful service to God, but for the hope of multiple, seemingly material, returns promised. It is one thing if I give in order to obey. It is another if I give in order to gain.
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