Tithing and the Law

Are we supposed to tithe and give offerings now that Jesus has fulfilled the law? I hear that all the time. In fact, there was a time in my life that I repeated the same thing. But every time I hear it now, I just cringe and my heart fills with sorrow for the person who just doesn’t get it. I don’t tithe and make offerings because I have to, I tithe and make offerings because I get to. I got a revelation of tithing about 10 years ago and it has changed my life. Of many, a few reasons I tithe: • To show God that money is not my Lord, He is. • To show God that I can be trusted with more and more blessings. • To participate in building the Kingdom of God. • To participate in the vision God has given my pastor. • To sow into my future and the futures of my children and grand children, and theirs, and … There is such a freedom in letting go of the stresses of finances and trusting God for your provision. His provision is all I need. At some times, it may be riches and abundance, and at other times it may be bread and flesh from the ravens. But one thing, I am certain of, is that He will never fail me. He will never abandon me. He will never leave my lacking. Am I not more important than the birds of the air, and He provides for them. He is my provision because, I have declared him Lord of all; Lord of my heart, Lord of my life, Lord of all I have. “And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.” Why did the widow woman give all she had and why didn’t Jesus use this opportunity to say, “woman keep you coins, it is enough that you love the Lord”? She gave all she had because she had a revelation that the coins were not her provision. Jehovah-Jireh is her provision. Jehovah-Jireh blesses her for making Him Lord of all; pressed down, shaken together and running over. Her last two coins may not have even bought a meal, but the result of trusting the Lord with all she had and all she is, is a sweet fragrance of worship to the Lord and her faith was rewarded.