Root of Evil

                I read this post on Facebook the other day and the quote on the photo read: “If money is the root of all evil then why do they ask for it at church?” I skimmed over the quote, it irritated me that someone would try to make tithing into something negative, but I kept asking myself that question. Why did we ask for money in church? As I kept thinking about it I came up with this.

             

            In the early days of the bible God asked for sacrifices, food sacrifices.  He asked for the one thing that sustained their world. Money wasn’t a huge issue but being able to eat was. He asked for his people to give up an animal, or wheat, or some kind of harvest as an offering. Now he asks us to give up that one thing that means more to use in this world than most anything else, our money; the thing that we work ourselves to death for, so we can have statues in this world. And to some this may sound like God is the one who is greedy and just wants what you have and not have to work for it but really he’s asking you to trust him. He’s asking you to give up yourself, your human nature, the one thing that sustains you and to trust him to sustain you. Tithing helps your church be able to pay the light bills, the air conditioning bills, the electricity bills, the trips for the youth, the music and sound system and everything you are use to using and seeing within your church. The money you give to God comes right back to you. Some of it is used for community outreach projects and to help support a missionary family and that’s God providing for those people who are leaving their life and culture or those who just need help. When you freely give of yourself you learn to value the things of this world less and to value relationships and the things unseen more. Once you can detach from this world you can have a better relationship with God and show those who don’t trust in the things they cannot see that he is real and he does exist because you become the thing that they can see. They trust you that God is the one guiding you and then the light within just gets brighter and it’s amazing how just letting God move can do.

                So because money is the root of all evil but also what keeps us all going God asks that we let it go so he can better shine through us and so we will be healthier and happier in him. All things work out for the good of the Lord. He is asking us to be selfless as he is.