The Lord promises us that if we follow the commandment of tithing, he will pour out a blessing that we shall not have room enough to receive it.
I know this is true.
Jacob and I don't make a lot of money. We most likely never will. (We're gonna be teachers, 'member?) As students, we sometimes feel overwhelmed with the many expenses we have every month. In addition to the usual rent, car, phone bills, gas, and groceries, we always seem to have ever surmounting school expenses. Tuition, class fees, textbooks, instrument repairs and supplies, insurance, etc.
Try as hard as we do, it is nigh unto impossible for us to not spend more than we earn each month.
We know there are even more expenses in the near future; labor and delivery, insurance for the little one, diapers, clothing, baby needs, etc. commuting expenses, a new transmission in the car. And the ever continuing monster school expenses.
Despite all this, we love to pay our tithing. It's my favorite check to write out each month. We don't know how the Lord does it, but we know that the 10% we give back to him is multiplied back to us in so many ways.
Just in the last month:
-I earned over $150 doing a school assignment.
-Jacob received a bonus music scholarship that was refunded to our account.
-We earned 1% cash back rewards from our credit card expenses. ..rewards we didn't even realize existed until this month.
-We prepared our taxes, and for being students, we both received an incredible amount of refund money. About 10 times more refund than I'd ever received on my own. (Wow!)
-We signed a contract at a new apartment that will save us $100 in rent every month.
-We received many wonderful baby-related gifts from family. Besides medical expenses, we've hardly had to pay for anything for our daughter at all.
You know what else about tithing is so amazing? It's compounded! Like interest in a savings account, only much better. You earn money, you pay 10%. You pay 10%, so the Lord blesses you with even more money. More money means more opportunities to pay tithing and get even more blessings!
We also know that not all of the promised blessings are financial blessings, and we didn't necessarily ask for these blessings either. God just knew we needed them. Moral of the story: pay your tithing, and the Lord will give you blessings you probably could have lived without. Will there be room enough to receive them? Well .. .maybe not.
