To cap off the weekend I heard a great sermon on stewardship by a long-time friend based on a passage in Malachi. “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 there will not be room enough to store it.” It’s like God is saying, “I dare you to be generous and see if I don’t bless you in ways that astonish you.”
We are entering “the season of giving.” Seems to me quite appropriate to take on God’s dare of faithfulness and generosity. What’s to lose?