“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. (Matthew 6:19-24 ESV)
How many of us are tithing? And we could spend a good bit of time talking about that. You see in the Hebrew scriptures tithing was the portion of your income or estate that kept the temple functioning and giving was over and above that. So if we are not giving more than10% we are not following what the bible says about giving…
But what does it mean for me to give? We have all thought about it and pondered it. We have thought or heard someone say, “I’m not ready to give yet, my heart just isn’t there.” Or “I’m not ready for that yet because I’ve only been following for a while and not sure this is something I want to stick with…”
But what does Jesus actually say? Where my heart is there my treasure will be? If we had to get our heart right to completely understand and do giving the way Jesus did, none of us would get it because we only think of ourselves. Jesus did not say where my heart is there my treasure will be. He said where your treasure is here your heart will be also. We have to give up our god of money and wealth and status and give it over to God. We need to place our treasure in His hand, because that is where it came from in the first place.
So stop trying to get your heart in the right place before you give, give now and see how much more enlightened your heart becomes on who God is and what He has done for you.
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