Monday, July 5, 2010

Explosive Giving

Yesterday to celebrate our Independence, Americans spent over 350 million dollars on Fireworks. It was definitely cool blowing stuff up but 350 million dollars seems pretty extreme. Now I'm not against fireworks, I love fireworks, but are our priorities in the wrong place?
I was reading the other day in Exodus 35 and 36 where the Lord spoke through Moses telling the people to bring offerings to the Lord. He told them to bring jewelry, linen, gold, silver, etc. and the people began to bring it in, and bring it in, and bring it in. They brought so much in that Moses literally had to say "Stop!!" there was too much to handle. They brought more than was needed.

What if we began to see this in our churches again. That we brought in so much that people had to be turned away because there was too much. Sadly it blows my mind to even think that way. The resources are there but it's not a priority. Lets give to the Kingdom of God and reach more and more people, lets give so much that we have to be told to stop giving. Wow! What an impact we could make.

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