In today's economy, the church sometimes sounds like we are apologizing for taking up an offering for buildings, mission, or ministry. Where did this reluctance originate? Our Biblical heritage lays out there a different approach with a daily "freewill offering." Can we imagine giving not monthly or weekly but daily? This offering was to provide for the intricate details of the tabernacle. I marvel at how the priority of God first is lived out in these pages describing so many elaborate details for worship. Are we not missing in our culture today a sense of giving to honor God first? Is our reluctance to give not a statement of a lack of priority for worship? A willingness to give to God first produces more than enough. What does this text say to our churches today in these economic times? Does God always provide more than enough? Is the real issue our reluctance?
Here is the account...
"They received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to carry out the work of constructing the sanctuary. And the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning. So all the skilled craftsmen who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left their work and said to Moses, "The people are bringing more than enough for doing the work the LORD commanded to be done."
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