Malachi 3 records a rhetorical discussion between God and Israel. God accuses them of robbing him in tithes and offerings. It caused me to ponder how I might be robbing God. Do I put His will first? Am I fully invested in His work? Am I in the Word enough? Praying enough (His will not my agenda)? Am I so transformed that His Spirit cannot be missed in my life?
God challenges them to bring in the full offering and to test Him and see if He will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that they will not have room enough for it. What a glorious picture!
What a beautiful and gracious God to call His people to give and to look for His abundant response.
Father, show us where we are slighting you. Show us where in our lives and as a church we are robbing you. And call us to give to you first… and more completely: in radical hospitality, in risk-taking mission, in extravagant generosity and passionate worship.
Lord, we trust that when we seek you… we will find you, a great and generous God, full of power and love to transform us for your work in this world. Through Jesus, your great sacrifice, we pray. Amen.
-Julie Clinebell
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