Haggai 1:7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. 10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
It’s one thing to return a faithful tithe and offering when things are going good, when there is plenty of income, and when inflation is low. But if and when there’s a change of fortune, and adversity sets in for a prolonged season, being faithful at such a time as this can be a completely different animal. When inflation is heading North and when the price for goods and services is skyrocketing, there is the natural tendency to squeeze, mash brakes and to be tightfisted.
That’s all well and good, if doing so does not affect your faithfulness, for God expects us to be faithful, when inflation is low, and when it is high. Nowadays, many persons are finding it necessary to cut back severely on their spending in order to make ends meet, and in doing so, a strong temptation will often come to the Christian, to put your tithes and offerings on the chopping block.
Miami Dade county is facing a budget deficit of 400 million dollars, and many other counties across the country are currently facing budget shortfalls. Thus, to make up the difference, property taxes in Dade will be hiked in some places, to as much as 21 % according to the recent information sent out. In addition to this, the cost of electricity, housing, rent, groceries and gas are taking a definite toll on millions of people, in so much that individuals and families are being forced to migrate, in what we call financial gentrification.
Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!