with Tendai Muchena
There's a message that went viral earlier this week about a man who was asked for money by a street and he in turn asked the street kid for money saying he wants to buy bread for his son back home.
The street kid reached into his pocket, gave the man money and asked him to greet his son for him. The man took the money and drove a bit expecting the street kid to follow asking for his money back.
When this did not happen, the man parked his car, broke down and with his teary eyes ended up walking back to where the street kid was now sitting with his little sister by the roadside.
He gave him back his money and gave him more money on top, more than 15 times what he had been given.
Some of us when asked for money go to the extremes of saying "handina kana cent", even when you have tens of dollars that could really help the person in need.
Why not put someone's needs before yours? If we can not give to God's people, can we say we are truly giving to Him? Are we even giving Him what is His?
_“Will a mere mortal rob God?" Yet you rob me. But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ "In tithes and offerings.
You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.
Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it."_ Malachi 3:8-10
Give. Test Him. See what He will do for you.
Tendai Muchena fellowships at Marlborough Salvation Army church in Harare. She writes here on her own personal capacity. She can be contacted at muchenatendai90@gmail.com.
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