We live in a world of investments. We’re familiar with the traditional investments of money to get more money. It’s one of the great paradoxes in life, and we’ve all heard the expression, “You’ve got to have money, to make money.” Even in Christendom, there’s this idea that when we tithe, God is going to return our investment back to us with more money than we can count.
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.
Malachi 3:10 (NIV)
Although we might like to think that’s what Malachi 3:10 is telling us, I believe we are so very shortsighted if we limit our blessings to money.
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