Tithing Blessings

My small Bible study group is currently reading Patriarchs and Prophets and our chapter last week was about tithe.  One of the young women asked just what tithe blessings are.  My dad is a true believer and participant in tithing.  He had a pickup truck that got well over 400,000 miles and he never even overhauled the engine.  His batteries last years and years even though here in the desert most of us are lucky if a battery lasts 2 years.  You might not think about these as tithe blessings but what else can they be, just think how much money a truck with 400,000 miles that never needed any major mechanical work saved my dad.

She then asked about tithing when you do not have an income and your spouse is a non-believer and the spouse earns all the household income.  I know that lady gives her time, from the heart, to help the women's ministry group and I asked her about that.  She responded that she often finds she seems to accomplish so much it is as if she has a 28 or 30 hour day.  I replied that perhaps God is blessing her tithing of her time which is what she has to give back to God, despite not having a monetary income to tithe on.

In the past week, I have tried to be more mindful of the blessings of tithing.  I am self-employed and needless to say, this economy has been very rough on my checkbook.  I had a misunderstanding with a company about the date a payment was going to be deducted from my checking and discovered that I had about $100 in bank fees because I hadn't transferred money over to cover the payment since I didn't think it was going to be deducted yet.  I went to the bank to make the deposit needed to cover the payment and was just chatting with the bank manager while he made the deposit for me.  Then without me asking, he offered to reverse the fees even though it wasn't the bank's error...a tithing blessing.  And God blessed a bit further because it turned out the man was looking for someone to help with his taxes and so I got a bonus tithing blessing of a new client.  

God is just amazing.  We just have to stop long enough to realize that He does it in the little things all the time, we can't just wait for the huge miracle to realize His goodness in our lives.