Food for thought~

Yesterday in Sunday school we went over Malachi 3:8-10 briefly and it got me thinking.

"Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?' "In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing me. 10 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 you will not have room enough for it. 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit," says the LORD Almighty. 12 "Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land," says the LORD Almighty.

With Greg going into finacial counseling he has learned many statistics concerning our country, one being the lack of Christian tithing to the church. I know Randy Alcorn also points this out in his book, The Treasure Principle (one of my favorites). In the past weeks/months spending a lot of extra time in prayer for our nation and future leadership it dawned on me as I read and re-read this verse and chapter that perhaps if we (as a church) would just choose to follow and trust our Lord on this issue, perhaps our country as a whole would be in a much better situation. Just a thought AND just another reason to be thankful for my husband...he does a great job at managing our finances and faithfully following our Father...much better than I could ever do!