The son looked at his father with tears in his eyes.
This was his first real Christmas to get a lot of toys.
But these weren’t tears of joy in his eyes.
His father told him that if he didn’t give him10% of his toys back that he would take them away and destroy them.
The child winced as his father ripped the arms and legs off his action figures.
He sobbed as his father crushed his fire truck under his foot.
He wept as his father gathered up all the pieces of his toys, called him “ungrateful” and “disobedient” and threw them in the garbage.
What horrible father would do this to his children, and yet this is what the church tells us about God.
They tell us that if we don’t tithe at least 10% of our gross income that God will take away His blessing and curse us by allowing the “devourer” to take away what we have.
Some say that “he takes his 10% in doctor bills by causing us sickness and injury.”
How horrible a lie this is.
How horrible our Heavenly Father would be to do this to us.
He blessed us so that we can bless others and to bless them from our abundant increase; not to take away our grocery money and give it to the church.
You can’t rob God. Everything you have is His already.
Let him guide your heart to give.
Give out of your abundance and if you don’t have abundance, don’t fear the Father.
He loves you with an everlasting love.
BY: Bishop Joshua Maynard