Robbing God

8 "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.

Malachi 3:8-10

Just had a sudden revelation while praying to God. I mean, I've known this for a long time, but it never occured to me with such clarity. All this shit that we've been going through with our finances and all, boils down to one simple fact.

I have been robbing God.

It has already been ordained in His Word that tithing is part and parcel of obeying him. But time and again, I have been compromising on my tithes to pay our bills and trying to resolve everything MY way. I decided that this has to stop somehow so I started my New Year with my tithing again. I even forced myself to give more than 10%, not so that I can claim credit for it but because God deserves all the glory and honour.

My prayer and resolution for 2008 is that God will fill me with His Holy Spirit so that I will learn to fear and revere Him even more through His Word and that He will break this stronghold of finances that continue to bind me.

I am, after all, the strength of the household and all things must be set right in me first before everything else will fall in place.