Okay, I know this is an uneasy subject for some people. The “M” word is BIG and BOLD and it’s much easier to just talk about coincidence or luck. But I see miracles all the time….little mini-miracles….and the bigger ones like last week.
The sermon this past Sunday was on tithing. I thought to myself, “Here we go, another one on giving more.” I settled in to zone out….sorry, I’m not perfect. But something quite different happened. I was hearing more about what I worship than what I give. A verse that I had written down in my Journal a week before popped up on the screen, “No one can serve two masters…You cannot serve both God and Money.” Matthew 6:24.
…Huh?
Then Jody, our minister said, “It’s not about money, it’s about your devotion.”
…Huh?
He went on to say, “Do you spend time worrying about money, paying bills, sending kids to school, retirement, etc.? Do you worry over building up and the bottom line? Do you worry that you just won’t have enough to retire? Do you worry about your house, your car, your jewelry, your lifestyle, your STUFF? Do you worship…. money?”
oh…..
Then a verse I had never heard before appeared on the screen. “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.” Malachi 3:10
Gulp….We 100% worshiped money. You see my business of 20 years shut down in 2009 with the recession. We were carrying a two income life on only one and that income was based largely on commission. Daily, we devoted hours of time and energy worrying about how to juggle our money and our stuff. How could we possibly give more if we were having trouble paying for everything now?
BELIEVE. That night my husband and I pledged that we would immediately stop worshiping money. We would give a full 10% of everything that hit our bank account, we would save 10%, and we would live on the rest…and TRUST in God. We prayed and told God we were taking Him up on the Test.
The very next day at noon – I was eating a sandwich – my cell phone rang. After 3 1/2 years of no work, a company was asking me to handle a large job with no budget and more to come. I could barely speak.
Miracles do happen on Mondays.
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