Tithing

Perhaps the whole point to tithing is to try and pry our mind and fingers off something that is not even ours in the first place. you see, your mind says

“I will give this to God”

( But in reality, it is already his.) And then for that little amount there is not the same feeling attached to it as if it were “yours”.

So, for example, someone steals “your money” you feel angry then depressed.
However, someone steals God’s money, and you do not feel the loss, and you are sure that God can avenge it if he wanted to.

Another thing that I thought with getting gifts for people with tithing was that you are spending money that is not your own and that is always more freeing than spending money that is “closer” to you (ie yours or your parents (or Uncles)) and you therefore spend it more cheerfully.

And then my thoughts went faster and I began to wonder if one could not apply this to many different things, to our very bodies and futures! Perhaps that is what Paul keeps talking about when he claims that we Belong to God. And in that case we would live life as though we were not our own masters, and how freeing that would be.

Maybe people have already discovered this, but it made me very excited.




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We were brought up to tithe and I have never really got rid of this sense that I should “give 10% to God”.

Today I went out and bought a gift for someone, totally random --meaning it was for no official reason and gifts like that usually turn into “Un-Birthday Gifts”.

Then I wondered whether that would be a good use in the future for a tithe: to go out and spend the money for someone. I suppose the question of what is god use of that money would arise. Like, should I buy cans of food for starving people or should I buy a gift for my friends at college. but I do not wish to tackle that right now.

*the following section was supposed to introduce the subject, but for fear of the reader loosing interest and missing the main point I have put it last.