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Rambles: Finances.

Luke 16:10 ESV / 269 helpful votes





“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much."









I will be the first to admit that I am a bit obsessed with our finances. I guarantee that I ask Kaleb what our balance is a minimum of, Oh I don't know 75x a week, give or take. I am in a constant state of worry that some day it will all just dry up, and we will be left with nothing. Now don't get me wrong I absolutely have no problem with spending our money either, and not always on the wisest of things. I love being able to treat our friends to lunch, or buy little gifts here and there. I am not one to shy away from a Starbucks coffee on a long day, and I will always justify a new purse. We are not at a point in our lives where I should stress about our finances, but that's just who I am.  











The other day when I was panicking about money I was reminded of something very very very important, I wasn't tithing off the top. I have not been dedicated to my tithes since we moved to Denver. I wasn't mailing my tithe down to my church home in Albuquerque, and up here we weren't actively going to a church that I felt involved enough in to tithe to. A few months ago we began our journey at Restoration Community Church, and immediately felt that this should be our church home. It was honestly the very next Sunday that God started pulling on my heart strings to give our tithe to this church. In these moments to come as I was wagering with God on whether or not we could afford to tithe at this moment in time I was reminded of the verse about. I was reminded that we were called to tithe, and not just to tithe whatever is left at the end of the day but off the top. We should be able to trust God so much with our finances that we have no problem giving money to him. 

I know that The Lord is going to provide for us, it may not be in plethora, but he is not going to leave us for dead. He has promised his children that he will not abandoned us, so why should I be obsessed with something that isn't even ours to begin with. 

Well that was my little ramble for the day. 

XOXO, 
B
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